{"id":192363,"date":"2008-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nirmal-kumar-dhiman-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-21-july-2008"},"modified":"2016-10-30T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T12:10:32","slug":"nirmal-kumar-dhiman-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-21-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nirmal-kumar-dhiman-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-21-july-2008","title":{"rendered":"Nirmal Kumar Dhiman vs State Of Punjab And Others on 21 July, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Nirmal Kumar Dhiman vs State Of Punjab And Others on 21 July, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB                        AND HARYANA\n               AT CHANDIGARH\n\n                        Criminal Revision No. 1242 of 2000\n                        Date of decision: 21.7.2008.\n\nNirmal Kumar Dhiman                                   .....Petitioner\n\n                              Versus\n\nState of Punjab and others                            ...Respondents\n\n                                    ****\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL\n       HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND\n\n                                    ****\n\nPresent: Mr. Vinod Ghai, Advocate for the complainant.\n\n         Mr. D.S. Brar, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the State\n\n         Mr. Sanjay Jain, Advocate as Amicus Curiae for\n         respondents No. 2 and 3.\n\nS. D. ANAND, J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>             For orders, see order of even date passed in Criminal Appeal<\/p>\n<p>No. 681-DBA of 2000 (State of Punjab Vs. Ashok Kumar Mehra and<\/p>\n<p>another ).<\/p>\n<pre>\n\n\n\n                                            ( S. D. ANAND )\n                                                JUDGE\n\n\n\nJuly 21, 2008                          (ADARSH KUMAR GOEL)\nPka                                           JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Nirmal Kumar Dhiman vs State Of Punjab And Others on 21 July, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No. 1242 of 2000 Date of decision: 21.7.2008. Nirmal Kumar Dhiman &#8230;..Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others &#8230;Respondents **** CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR. 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