{"id":234580,"date":"2009-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/municipal-council-vs-presiding-officer-on-19-november-2009-2"},"modified":"2017-05-25T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T09:55:37","slug":"municipal-council-vs-presiding-officer-on-19-november-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/municipal-council-vs-presiding-officer-on-19-november-2009-2","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Council vs Presiding Officer on 19 November, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Municipal Council vs Presiding Officer on 19 November, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>     IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                       CHANDIGARH\n\n\n                                 Civil Writ Petition No.9162 of 2001\n                                 Date of decision:19.11.2009\n\n\nMunicipal Council, Dina Nagar                                 ....Petitioner\n\n\n                                versus\n\n\nPresiding Officer, Labour Court, Gurdaspur and another.\n                                                          ...Respondents\n\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN\n                                ----\n\n\nPresent:      Mr. H.S.Bakshi, Advocate, for the petitioner.\n\n              Mr. Mandeep Bedi, Senior Advocate with\n              Mr. Gagneshwal Walia, Advocate, for the respondent.\n                              ----\n\n\n1.     Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the\n       judgment ?\n2.     To be referred to the reporters or not ?\n3.     Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ?\n                                 ----\n\nK.Kannan, J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>              For detailed orders, see Civil Writ Petition No.9141 of 2001<\/p>\n<p>of even date.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                         (K.KANNAN)<br \/>\n19 .11.2009                                                 JUDGE<br \/>\nsanjeev\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Municipal Council vs Presiding Officer on 19 November, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.9162 of 2001 Date of decision:19.11.2009 Municipal Council, Dina Nagar &#8230;.Petitioner versus Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Gurdaspur and another. &#8230;Respondents CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR. JUSTICE K. 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