IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.17042 of 2010 Date of decision: 21.9.2010 Teka Ram …..Petitioner versus State of Haryana and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Augustine George Masih Present: Mr.P.K.Chugh, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) It is contention of counsel for the petitioner that reference application made by the petitioner under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act), in the year 1971, has not been referred by the Collector for adjudication to the Civil Court. To say so, reference has been made to a document dated 5.8.1971 (P1) and an order passed by the District Judge on 11.5.1972. It is further contention of counsel for the petitioner that despite repeated requests, the Land Acquisition Collector has not complied with the directions given by the District Judge vide the above mentioned order and has failed to send his application for adjudication to the competent Court. During arguments, it transpired that by stating his grievance, the petitioner has already sent a legal notice on 13.5.2005 (P2), which, as per contention made, is still pending undecided. Civil Writ Petition No.17042 of 2010 In view of facts of this case, this writ petition is disposed of by issuing directions to respondent No.3 (Land Acquisition Collector, Faridabad) to take note and decide legal notice (P2) filed by the petitioner and if there is no legal hitch and the averments made by the petitioner in his legal notice are correct, needful be done within three months. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 21.09.2010 (Augustine George Masih) gk Judge 2