{"id":224436,"date":"2008-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/basant-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-26-september-2008"},"modified":"2017-08-22T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:28:24","slug":"basant-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-26-september-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/basant-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-26-september-2008","title":{"rendered":"Basant Singh vs State Of Punjab And Others on 26 September, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Basant Singh vs State Of Punjab And Others on 26 September, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>      IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                     CHANDIGARH.\n\n                                                  C.W.P. No. 17164 of 2008\n                                         DATE OF DECISION : 26.09.2008\n\nBasant Singh\n                                                            .... PETITIONER\n\n                                   Versus\n\nState of Punjab and others\n\n                                                        ..... RESPONDENTS\n\nCORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL\n            HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH\n\n\nPresent:    Mr. M.S. Uppal, Advocate,\n            for the petitioner.\n\n                         ***\n<\/pre>\n<p>SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral )<\/p>\n<p>            The petitioner has filed this petition under Articles 226\/227 of<\/p>\n<p>the Constitution of India for setting aside the election of respondents No.7<\/p>\n<p>and 8 as Panches of Gram Panchayat, Village Mirpur Kalan, Tehsil<\/p>\n<p>Sardulgarh, District Mansa.\n<\/p>\n<p>            After arguing for some time, in view of the disputed questions<\/p>\n<p>of law involved in the petition and the availability of the remedy of election<\/p>\n<p>petition under Section 76 read with Section 89 of the Punjab State Election<\/p>\n<p>Commission Act, 1994, counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>may be permitted to withdraw this writ petition with liberty to avail the<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\"> CWP No. 17164 of 2008                                        -2-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>remedy of election petition, in accordance with law.<\/p>\n<p>            Dismissed as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty.<\/p>\n<pre>\n\n\n\n                                       ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL )\n                                               JUDGE\n\n\nSeptember 26, 2008                        ( JASWANT SINGH )\nndj                                             JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Basant Singh vs State Of Punjab And Others on 26 September, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. 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