IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 6316 of 2010 Date of decision: 2nd July, 2010 Surinder Singh and others … Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others … Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Animesh Sharma, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. J.S. Puri, Additional Advocate General, Punjab for the State. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL) In the present writ petition, it has been prayed that a writ in the nature of mandamus be issued and the respondents be directed to notify the result of election, whereby the petitioners were elected as Panches of the Gram Panchayat of village Rampura, Tehsil Phillaur, District Ferozepur. Reply has been filed by the respondents No.1 to 6. In para 8 of preliminary submissions, it has been stated as under: “8. That the aforesaid writ petition is pending in this Hon’ble Court. Since the matter is sub-judice so, the names of the petitioners and the other persons have not been notified as panches of Gram Panchayat Rampura by respondent No.2. It is relevant to mention here that the name of the petitioners and the other two elected panches has already been sent by the deponent to the respondent No.2 for notification.” Civil Writ Petition No.6316 of 2010 Mr. J.S. Puri, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, on instructions from Rajinder Kapoor, Superintendent (Election), State Election Commission, Punjab, has made a statement that within a period of ten days from today, the necessary notification shall be issued. Mr. Animesh Sharma, Advocate appearing for the petitioners, has prayed that in view of the statement made by counsel for the State, present writ petition may be disposed of. Hence, it is ordered that the necessary notification be issued within a period of ten days from today. With the observations made above, present writ petition is disposed of. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE July 2, 2010 rps 2