{"id":92017,"date":"2009-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/court-on-its-own-motion-vs-state-of-punjab-on-30-may-2009"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:49:54","slug":"court-on-its-own-motion-vs-state-of-punjab-on-30-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/court-on-its-own-motion-vs-state-of-punjab-on-30-may-2009","title":{"rendered":"Court On Its Own Motion vs State Of Punjab on 30 May, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Court On Its Own Motion vs State Of Punjab on 30 May, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>              IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n\n                             CHANDIGARH\n\n\n                                     Civil Writ Petition No.10791 of 2002\n                                        Date of Decision: May 30th 2009\n\n\nCourt on its own motion\n\n                                                                 Petitioner\n                                  Versus\nState of Punjab\n                                                               Respondent\n\n\n\nCORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE T.S.THAKUR, CHIEFJUSTICE\n        HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH\n\nPresent:    Mr.Anupam Gupta, Amicus Curiae and for\n            UT Administration along with\n            Mr.Deepak Sharma, Advocate\n            Mr.Rameshwar Malik, Addl. A.G. Haryana\n            Mr. Amol Rattan Singh, Addl. A.G. Punjab\n                             ..\n<\/pre>\n<p>            For order, see order of even date passed in Civil Writ Petition<\/p>\n<p>No.15041 of 2007 titled as Court on its own motion versus State of Punjab.<\/p>\n<pre>\n\n\n\n                                             (JASBIR SINGH)\n                                                JUDGE\n\n\nMay 30th 2009                                 (T.S.THAKUR)\ngk                                           CHIEF JUSTICE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Court On Its Own Motion vs State Of Punjab on 30 May, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.10791 of 2002 Date of Decision: May 30th 2009 Court on its own motion Petitioner Versus State of Punjab Respondent CORAM:- HON&#8217;BLE MR. 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