KASHMIR SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) The Act was applicable to the entire territories of the undivided State of Punjab including PEPSU. By reason of the provisions of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956, the State of Himachal Pradesh was constituted, having been carved out from the State of Punjab.

(3.) Another Parliamentary Act, being Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 (for short "the 1966 Act") was enacted in terms whereof the State of Punjab was divided into the State of Punjab, the State of Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.