{"id":78474,"date":"2008-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sukhwinder-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-20-august-2008"},"modified":"2016-11-20T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T04:10:21","slug":"sukhwinder-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-20-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sukhwinder-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-20-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"Sukhwinder Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 20 August, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sukhwinder Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 20 August, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>      IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                     CHANDIGARH.\n\n                                                C.W.P. No. 5700 of 2007\n                                         DATE OF DECISION : 20.08.2008\n\nSukhwinder Singh and others\n                                                          .... PETITIONERS\n                                   Versus\nState of Punjab and others\n\n                                                      ..... RESPONDENTS\n\nCORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL\n         HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE DAYA CHAUDHARY\n\n\nPresent:    None for the petitioners.\n\n            Mr. N.S. Virk, Addl. A.G., Punjab.\n\n            Mr. T.P. Singh, Advocate, for respondent No.4.\n\n                         ***\n<\/pre>\n<p>SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral )<\/p>\n<p>            In the present writ petition, the petitioners have challenged the<\/p>\n<p>order of re-instatement of respondent No.4 as Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat<\/p>\n<p>Village Jhanda Lobana, Block Kahnuwan, District Gurdaspur.<\/p>\n<p>            Counsel for the respondents state that since fresh elections have<\/p>\n<p>been held and the new Panchayat of the aforesaid Village has been elected,<\/p>\n<p>therefore, this petition has become infructuous.<\/p>\n<p>            Even otherwise, no one is present on behalf of the petitioners.<\/p>\n<p>            Dismissed for want of prosecution.<\/p>\n<pre>\n\n\n\n                                        ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL )\n                                                 JUDGE\n\n\nAugust 20, 2008                             ( DAYA CHAUDHARY )\nndj                                                JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Sukhwinder Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 20 August, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. 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