Rajesh Kumar vs State of Haryana - 1998 Supreme(P&H) 1122

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1998 Supreme(P&H) 1122

G.S.SINGHVI, IQBAL SINGH
Rajesh Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Haryana – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Mr. Hemant Kumar, Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Mr. Bimal Chander, Mr. S.P. Singh, Mr. S.P. Laler, Mr. B.C. Bitta, Mr. P.S. Rana, Mr. Deepak Sibal, Mr. D.K. Singla, Mr. Pritam Saini, Mr. S.K.S. Bedi, Mr. A.K. Jain, Mr. R.S. Mamli, Mr. Kamal Sharma, Mr. R.K. Aggarwal, Mr. Mahesh Grover, Mr. P.C. Dhiman, Mr. S.S. Behl, Mr. Bhag Singh, Mr. S.S. Dinarpur, Mr. G.S. Kler, Mr. Surinder Batra, Mr. S.S. Dalal, Mr. Jagdish Manchanda, Mr. Atual Lakhanpal, Mr. Sanjiv Sheoran, Mr. Jeety Kaul, Mr. Jitender Dhanda, Mr. Narottam Kaushal, Mr. Gurcharan Dass, Mr. Adish Gupta, Mr. Manjit Singh Guglani, Mr. Vivek Suri, Mr. D.C. Mittal, Mr. Jaivir Yadav, Mr. Naresh Katyal, Mr. Tarun Aggarwal, Mr. Arvind Singh, Mr. Surinder Gandhi, Mr. A.S. Virk, Mr. J.B. Tacoria, Mr. V. Ram Swaroop, Mr. R.K. Sharma, Mr. Virkam Singh, Mr. Sanjiv Kumar, Mr. B.S. Rana, Mr. Ramesh Hooda, Mr. Maharaj Kumar, Mr. Vijay Dahiya, Mr. Rainder Pal Singh, Mr. B.S. Walia, Mr. J.S. Maanipur, Mr. B.L. Gupta, Mr. Jitender Chetan, Mr. Harsh Kinra, Mr. Rakesh Nagpal, Mr. Kulvir Narwal, Mr. S.K. Mittal, Mr. Mukesh Kaushik, Mr. Rakesh Gupta, Mr. S.S. Ahlawat, Mr. R.A. Sheoran, Mr. Ashwani Talwar, Mr. Satish Kadiyan, Mr. A.K. Sharma, Mr. R.K. Jain, Mr. Ajay Sharda, Mr. Vishal Gupta, Mr. Ramesh Chahal, Mr. A.K. Rathee, Mr. Heman Aggarwal, Mr. Govind Goel, Mr. Arvind Bansal, Mr. Sulekh Chand, Mr. Manjeet Dalal, Mr. Sanjiv Vashishth, Mr. Sanjiv Gupta, Mr. Baldev Kapoor, Mr. Parduman Yadav, Mr. M.K. Sangwan, Mr. R.C. Chaudhary, Mr. Vinod Gupta, Mr. M.R. Verma, Mr. P.N. Arora, Mr. Rajinder Sharma, Mr. Harish Sharma, Mr. Hemant Bassi, Mr. R.S. Tacoria, Mr. Manoj Bajaj, Mr. J.C. Wadhawan, Mr. Mahavir Sandhu, Mr. N.K. Banka, Mr. H.P.S. Deol, Ms. Anurag Goyal, Mr. Kanwaljit Singh, Mr. M.L. Saini, Mr. R.S. Longia, Mr. Kirti Kumar, Mr. S.K. Garg, Mr. Sanjiv Jain, Mr. Nand Lal Sammi, Mr. M.S. Chauhan, Mr. Babbar Bhan, Mr. Y.P. Malik, Mr. Davinder Kumar, Mehesh Gupta, Mr. Anil Walia, Mr. J.P. Khokkar, Mr. Gopal Mittal, Mr. D.K. Siyal, Mr. V.M. Gupta, Mr. Sudhir Aggarwal, Mr. J.P. Chhokar, Mr. Rajiv Bhalla, Mr. B.R. Vohra, Mr. G.S. Gandhi, Mr. Kapil Aggarwal, Mr. Vimal Kumar, Mr. Sanjiv Murari, Mr. Munish Sharma, Mr. Ashish Aggarwal, Mrs. Kiran Bala, Mrs. Rajni Kaushik, Mrs. H.K. Rooprai and Mrs. Daya Chaudhary, Advocates.
For the Petitioners in C.W.P. Nos. 3958 and 4391 of 1998:Mr. Rupinder Khosla, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab.
For the Respondents:Mr. H.S. Hooda, Advocate General, Haryana with Mr. Jaswant Singh, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana.

JUDGMENT

G.S. Singhvi, J. - In the course of its campaign for elections to the Haryana Legislative Assembly in 1996, Haryana Vikas Party made a promise to the electorate that if voted to power it will introduce total prohibition in the State. After coming to power, it decided to fulfil the said promise. With this end in view and also for giving effect to the directive principles of State Policy embodied in Article 47 of the Constitution of India, the Government decided to use the legislative power vested in the Governor under Article 213 of the Constitution for amendment of the Punjab Excise Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), as applicable to the State of Haryana. The first step in this direction was the promulgation of Punjab Excise (Haryana Amendment) Ordinance, 1996 (Haryana Ordinance No. 1 of 1996) under Article 213(1) of the Constitution. By this Ordinance, Sections 3, 20, 25, 26, 34, 41, 57 and 61 of the Principal Act were amended. On 1.6.1996, Notification No. S.O. 80/P.A.1/14/Sections 17, 20, 24 and 26/96 was issued by the Governor of Haryana under Sections 17, 20, 24 and 26/96 of the principal Act to prohibit w.e.f. 1.7.1996 import or export of any in

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1998 Supreme(P&H) 1122

G.S.SINGHVI, IQBAL SINGHRajesh Kumar – AppellantVersusState of Haryana – Respondent

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G.S.SINGHVI, IQBAL SINGH
Rajesh Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Haryana – Respondent