appellants. All are employees of the
respondent Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), a
body constituted under the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925 (for
short ... exercise of its powers has framed Service
Rules for the employees of SGPC
prescribing their service conditions which
include their appointment and removal from
service
members. It was headed by Shri Avtar
Singh Makkar, President of the SGPC and Chairman of the Sri Guru Ram
Das Charitable Hospital Trust, Amritsar ... petitioners, the Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (hereinafter referred to as the SGPC) is a
Board created under the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred
appellants. All are employees of the
respondent Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), a
body constituted under the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925 (for
short ... exercise of its powers has framed Service
Rules for the employees of SGPC
prescribing their service conditions which
include their appointment and removal from
service
termination from service under the
Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee (for short
`the SGPC').
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4. The relevant facts very briefly are that the appellant ... working as an Assistant Secretary of the SGPC at
Amritsar when a news item was published in the local
dailies in November 2007 with some
Senior Advocate; with
Messrs. Gurminder Singh and Saruesh Bisaria, Advocates
for respondent SGPC
Mr. Hawa Singh Hooda, Advocate General, Haryana with
Mr. Gagandeep Singh Wasu ... their right to vote in the elections of
Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) i.e. the Board and
other statutory Committees constituted under the said
gurdwara. After the constitution of committee of management, the General Secretary of SGPC is to call its first meeting for election to the office ... General Secretary of the Board i.e. SGPC vide letter No. 87/5909/6-Gur Salochahal dated 11.12.1999 called the meeting of the newly elected
short, the ‘1966 Act’
4 For short, the ‘SGPC’
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against the constitutional provisions, the statutory provisions of the
1966 Act and is also divisive ... Constitution. The second writ petition has been preferred
by the SGPC challenging the Haryana Act on almost similar grounds.
4. The State of Haryana
challenged before us by Shiromani
Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (hereinafter referred to as `SGPC' for
short). While the Tribunal had declared an institution allegedly known ... Tribunal served notice of the petition, bearing No. 164 of 1963 to
SGPC and the other respondents in terms of the provisions under Section
appellant, Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar, (hereinafter referred to as 'SGPC') is a product of the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925 , (hereinafter referred ... fact. Sardar Ujjagar Singh, learned senior advocate, appearing for the appellant SGPC, however, goaded us to proceed with the appeal as, according to him, Section
that Christians and Sikh Institutions run by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to be minority institutions for the purpose of the Act (Annexure ... merits, it has been stated that declaration of institutions run by the SGPC as minority institutions vide notifications dated 3.4.2001 and 25.4.2006 was valid. Question
