{"id":218884,"date":"2009-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/punjab-state-and-another-vs-gurbant-singh-and-another-on-25-march-2009"},"modified":"2018-09-03T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:17:59","slug":"punjab-state-and-another-vs-gurbant-singh-and-another-on-25-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/punjab-state-and-another-vs-gurbant-singh-and-another-on-25-march-2009","title":{"rendered":"Punjab State And Another vs Gurbant Singh And Another on 25 March, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Punjab State And Another vs Gurbant Singh And Another on 25 March, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>In the Punjab and Haryana High Court,at Chandigarh.\n\n\n\n             RFA No.1803 of 1992\n             Decided on 25.3.2009.\n\n\n\nPunjab State and another                           --Appellants\n                    Vs.\n\nGurbant Singh and another                          --Respondents<\/pre>\n<p>CORAM:      HON&#8217;BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN<\/p>\n<p>Present:    Mr.Navdeep Sukhna, AAG,Punjab, for the appellants<\/p>\n<p>            Mr.Kanwal Goel, Advocate,for<br \/>\n            Mr.P.K.Gupta,Advoate,for the respondents.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rakesh Kumar Jain, J: (Oral)<\/p>\n<p>            For ordes, see RFA No.1802 of 1992 of even date.<\/p>\n<pre>\n\n\n\n\n25.3.2009                                    (Rakesh Kumar Jain)\nRR                                                   Judge\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Punjab State And Another vs Gurbant Singh And Another on 25 March, 2009 In the Punjab and Haryana High Court,at Chandigarh. RFA No.1803 of 1992 Decided on 25.3.2009. Punjab State and another &#8211;Appellants Vs. Gurbant Singh and another &#8211;Respondents CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr.Navdeep Sukhna, AAG,Punjab, for the appellants [&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":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-punjab-haryana-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab State And Another vs Gurbant Singh And Another on 25 March, 2009 - 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\/punjab-state-and-another-vs-gurbant-singh-and-another-on-25-march-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab State And Another vs Gurbant Singh And Another on 25 March, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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