Supreme Court of India

Dalbir Singh & Ors. v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [1979] 3 S.C.R. 1059

Bench V. R. Krishna Iyer, D. A. Desai and A. P. Sen JJ.

Decided 4 May 1979

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