Civil Writ Petition No. 14580 of 2007 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh. Civil Writ Petition No. 14580 of 2007 Date of Decision: 10.11.2009 Puran Singh …Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and Others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Mr. Amit Rawal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, for respondents No.1 to 3. Mr. M.L. Sarin, Senior Advocate with Mr. Vijay Sharma, Advocate for respondent No.4. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) The present writ petition has been filed with a prayer that order granting licence to respondent No.4 to develop colony be quashed and this Court should issue writ in the nature of certiorari for this purpose. It is not disputed that the petitioner had executed agreement to sell on 13.8.2004 in favour of Bhupinder Singh son of Daljit Singh and Harbhajan Singh son of Lal Singh. Petitioner, as per agreement to sell, along with his brother had agreed to sell 46 kanals 10 marlas of land. Out of this 46 kanals 10 marlas of land, petitioner was owner of 25 kanals 5½ marlas of the land. Remaining land was owned by his Civil Writ Petition No. 14580 of 2007 2 brother. Petitioner executed sale deed for 8 kanals of land on 27.6.2005. Later petitioner executed another sale deed for another parcel of land measuring 8 kanals on 27.2.2006 in favour of Bhupinder Singh son of Daljit Singh and Harbhajan Singh son of Lal Singh. It seems that later some dispute arose between the parties and the remaining 9 kanals 5½ marlas of land became subject matter of a civil suit. Copy of the civil suit has been attached as Annexure P3. No stay was granted to the petitioner. Ultimately, he approached this Court by filing Civil Revision No. 204 of 2007. In Civil Revision, parties have been directed to maintain status quo regarding the land in question till further orders. I have heard counsel for the parties. During course of arguments, it was proposed that till Civil Revision No. 204 of 2007 is decided, respondent No.4, in pursuance of licence (Annexure P6) will not carry any construction on the land measuring 9 kanals 5½ marlas which is subject matter of civil suit (Annexure P3) from today onwards and in case in the Civil Revision abovesaid, it is held that possession of the land in dispute was handed over to Bhupinder Singh son of Daljit Singh and Harbhajan Singh son of Lal Singh, who are Directors of respondent No.4, the licence issued in favour of respondent No.4 shall remain valid. If it is held otherwise, then qua that land licence shall not operate and the competent authority after hearing the parties shall hold an enquiry. Needless to say, parties shall be at liberty to take any remedy available to them, under law, for assailing the order of enquiry held by competent authority under the Act. It is clarified that the licence qua 9 Civil Writ Petition No. 14580 of 2007 3 kanals 5½ marlas of land shall not operate till that enquiry is concluded. The above mentioned proposal is accepted by counsel for the parties. In view of this, present writ petition is disposed of in terms of proposal recorded above. Counsel for respondent No.4 is given liberty to make a mention before the appropriate Bench for early disposal of the revision petition. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge November 10, 2009 “DK”