IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No. 143 of 2010 Date of decision : 12.1.2010 M/s Jagdish Raj and brothers ....Petitioners Versus Union of India and another ...Respondents **** CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr. B.R.Mahajan, Advocate for the petitioner. S. D. ANAND, J. It is apparent from the material obtaining on the file that petitioner herein furnished a bank guarantee in terms of the order passed by Hon'ble Mr. Justice R.L.Anand on 8.5.2000 in FAO1248 of 2000. That FAO has since been disposed of. A plea raised by the petitioner for the release of the bank guarantee was disposed of by the learned Addl. Civil Judge (Senior Division), Amritsar, by ordering that bank guarantee shall be released subject to “furnishing of surety bond in the court to meet the claim of any original owner later on appeared.” The impugned order cannot be upheld for the simple reason that the bank guarantee had been directed to be furnished till such time the relevant matter pending in this Court was disposed of. The retention of that bank guarantee cannot be validly ordered in anticipation of any further appeal which may be come to be filed by the affected party. The petition shall stand allowed in limine. The impugned order is set aside to the extent it was conditional on the release of bank guarantee subject to furnishing of surety bond by the petitioner herein. The bank guarantee shall be released unconditionally. January 12,2010 (S. D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE