{"id":246832,"date":"2009-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/harbhajan-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-26-october-2009"},"modified":"2015-01-24T22:08:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:38:01","slug":"harbhajan-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-26-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/harbhajan-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-26-october-2009","title":{"rendered":"Harbhajan Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 26 October, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Harbhajan Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 26 October, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH.\n\n                             CWP No. 954 of 2004\n\n                      Date of Decision: October 26, 2009\n\nHarbhajan Singh and others\n\n                                                             ...Petitioners\n\n                                   Versus\n\nState of Punjab and others\n\n                                                            ...Respondents\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR\n\n            HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH\n\nPresent:    Mr. G.S. Bal, Advocate,\n            for the petitioners.\n\n            Mr. Piyush Kant Jain, Addl. AG, Punjab,\n            for the respondents.\n\n1.    To be referred to the Reporters or not?\n2.    Whether the judgment should be reported in\n      the Digest?\n\n\nM.M. KUMAR, J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>            For orders see CWP No. 15067 of 2007.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                    (M.M. KUMAR)<br \/>\n                                                       JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>                                                   (JASWANT SINGH)<br \/>\nOctober 26, 2009                                        JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>Pkapoor\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Harbhajan Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 26 October, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. 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