{"id":71148,"date":"2009-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gurnam-singh-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-on-29-january-2009"},"modified":"2015-10-05T04:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:03:48","slug":"gurnam-singh-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-on-29-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gurnam-singh-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-on-29-january-2009","title":{"rendered":"Gurnam Singh vs State Of Haryana And Others on 29 January, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Gurnam Singh vs State Of Haryana And Others on 29 January, 2009<\/div>\n<pre> IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH\n\n\n                                      CRM No.M 2663 of 2009 (O&amp;M)\n                                      Date of decision: 29.1.2009\n\nGurnam Singh\n\n                                                                  ...Petitioner\n\n                   Versus\n\nState of Haryana and others\n                                                              ...Respondents\n\nCORAM:      HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE HARBANS LAL\n\nPresent:    Mr.Rahul Deswal, Advocate for the petitioner\n\n                         ***\nHarbans Lal, J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>            As per the jail custody certificate (Annexure P-1), the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>was convicted and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment on 20.8.2001.<\/p>\n<p>Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the Haryana Government<\/p>\n<p>Policy dated 8.8.2000, in relation to premature release of the convicts, was<\/p>\n<p>in vogue on the aforesaid date.\n<\/p>\n<p>            This petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents<\/p>\n<p>to decide the case of the petitioner for premature release as per Haryana<\/p>\n<p>Government Policy dated 8.8.2000, if this policy was in vogue at that time,<\/p>\n<p>within one month from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.<\/p>\n<pre>January 29, 2009                                  (Harbans Lal)\ngsv                                                   Judge\n  <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Gurnam Singh vs State Of Haryana And Others on 29 January, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM No.M 2663 of 2009 (O&amp;M) Date of decision: 29.1.2009 Gurnam Singh &#8230;Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others &#8230;Respondents CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR.JUSTICE HARBANS LAL Present: Mr.Rahul Deswal, Advocate for [&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-71148","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 v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gurnam Singh vs State Of Haryana And Others on 29 January, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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