Advocates:
KAVEETA WADIA

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ITEM NO.9 COURT NO.12 SECTION IIB

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 7266/2016

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 03/06/2016

in CRR No. 3876/2014 passed by the High Court Of Punjab & Haryana

At Chandigarh)

NIRMAL SINGH KAHLON Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANR. Respondent(s)

(with interim relief and office report)

Date : 25/11/2016 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR

For Petitioner(s)

Mr. K.V. Vishwanathan, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Gurminder Singh, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Kaveeta Wadia,Adv.

Mr. R.P.S. Bana, Adv.

Mr. Shashank Tripathi, Adv.

For Respondent(s)

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R

Heard learned senior counsel appearing for the

petitioner.

We see no ground to interfere in this matter.

The special leave petition is accordingly dismissed.

However, as pointed out by the learned senior

counsel, the observations made by the High Court in the

impugned order that “keeping in view the allegations in

the report under Section 173, Cr.P.C. these acts cannot

Digitally signed by

NEELAM GULATI

Date: 2016.11.29

16:28:54 IST

Reason:

Signature Not Verified

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be held as done in performance of the official duties nor

it can be held that these acts are having reasonable

connection in performance of the official duties” will

not affect the trial at all.

The Trial Court shall deal with the matter taking

into consideration all the objections raised by the parties

including the issue of validity of sanction under Section

197 Cr.P.C. from time to time and decide the case on its

own merits uninfluenced by any of the observations made by

the High Court.

(NEELAM GULATI)

COURT MASTER

(S.S.R. KRISHNA)

ASSISTANT REGISTRAR