IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.12682 OF 2009 DATE OF DECISION: APRIL 21 ,2011 Parvesh Malhotra and another .....Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana and othe rs ....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH PRESENT: Mr. R. S. Tacoria, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms. Shruti Jain, AAG, Haryana, for the State. Mr. Arvind Kashyap, Advocate, for responent No.3. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The primary grievance of the petitioners is that an appropriate action, as required under Section 12 of the Punjab New Capital (Periphery) Control Act, 1952 (for short, “the Act”), is not being taken. The grievance is that the petitioners have carried out construction on an agricultural land, which is impermissible and in case this is so done, action as given in Section 12 of the Act is required to be initiated. The State counsel, in response, has intimated that an FIR has been registered against respondent No.3 and notice has also been issued for initiating further action. Since the official respondents have already taken action, including registration of an FIR, no further direction would be needed. However, it may need to be observed that the official respondents cannot pend the action for long period and it would be appropriate for the respondents to take some time bound action. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. April 21,2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE