CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.7603 OF 2010 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: MARCH 23,2011 Isham Singh .....Petitioner VERSUS District Collector-cum-Chairman, District Level Committee, District Karnal and another ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. S. K. Rana, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Shruti Jain, AAG, Haryana, for the State. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner is a handicapped person and has filed this writ petition to seek handicapped pension. In the reply filed, the State has disclosed that the petitioner would not be covered by the criteria formulated in this regard. He is having an income of more than `10,000/- per annum whereas only those persons are entitled to handicapped pension, whose annual income is not more than `10,000/-. The petitioner concededly is owner of 7 acres of land and CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.7603 OF 2010 :{ 2 }: out of this land, he has transferred some land in the name of his son. He still is owning some land. The petitioner is, thus, owner of landed property, which will certainly fetch him substantial sum of money. Rather, the petitioner's income has been under assessed. The State has rightly declined the claim of the petitioner. The counsel still pleads that the income of the petitioner at relevant time was to be seen. Otherwise, the counsel concedes that now an acre of land would fetch `30,000/- as lease. The petitioner is totally unjustified in asking for pension. Dismissed with costs of `5000/-. At this stage, counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw this petition. That Prayer is also declined. March 23,2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE