Bakshish Singh v. State of Punjab & Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ petition CWP-17843-1997 (filed 1997) by Bakshish Singh against State of Punjab & Ors., decided 16.01.2025 by Justice Deepak Gupta, High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh. Notice of motion dated 10.12.1997 was limited to the question of the petitioner's willingness to return to his parent department, respondent No.3 Punjab Digital Industrial Systems Limited (Government Undertaking), which has since been wound up. Counsel for the petitioner: Deepak Thapar; Rajesh Sehgal, Addl. AG Punjab; Ajay Pal Singh for respondent No.2; Vikas Mohan Gupta, amicus curiae. Petition disposed of as infructuous; no substantive issue decided, no quantum involved.
What did the court decide?
Since the notice of motion had been confined to the petitioner's willingness to return to his parent department, and that parent department (respondent No.3, Punjab Digital Industrial Systems Limited, a Government Undertaking) has since been wound up as conceded by learned counsel, the present petition is disposed of, having been rendered infructuous.