{"id":192332,"date":"2000-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-03-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bhagat-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-and-ors-on-14-march-2000"},"modified":"2015-01-28T07:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:37:58","slug":"bhagat-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-and-ors-on-14-march-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bhagat-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-and-ors-on-14-march-2000","title":{"rendered":"Bhagat Singh vs State Of Punjab And Ors. on 14 March, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Bhagat Singh vs State Of Punjab And Ors. on 14 March, 2000<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1960 SC 1210 b, JT 2000 (8) SC 305<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Rao, R Pal<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. The sole appellant in this case, one Bhagat Singh, died and application for substitution has been filed on behalf of the legal representative of said Bhagat Singh. The substitution application is allowed.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Learned Counsel who appears in this case submits before us that the appellant wants to withdraw this appeal. The legal representative of the original appellant have also filed an application for withdrawal of the appeal supported by an affidavit in which it has been stated that on account of the death of her father she does not want to pursue the appeal any longer.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. Learned Counsel for the respondents states that the legal representative who has now been brought on record is the sole legal representative of the deceased Bhagat Singh.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. In the circumstances, this Interlocutory Application for withdrawal of appeal is allowed. The appeal is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Bhagat Singh vs State Of Punjab And Ors. on 14 March, 2000 Equivalent citations: AIR 1960 SC 1210 b, JT 2000 (8) SC 305 Bench: M Rao, R Pal JUDGMENT 1. The sole appellant in this case, one Bhagat Singh, died and application for substitution has been filed on behalf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bhagat Singh vs State Of Punjab And Ors. on 14 March, 2000 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bhagat-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-and-ors-on-14-march-2000\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bhagat Singh vs State Of Punjab And Ors. on 14 March, 2000 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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