IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 10696 of 2011 Date of decision : 07.12.2011 Baljinder Singh ...Petitioner Versus District Development and Panchayat Officer and another ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR Present: Mr. Lakhwinder Singh Mann, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. R.P.S. Sidhu, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for respondent No. 1. Nemo for respondent No.2. **** M ehinder S ingh S ullar, J. (Oral) At the very outset, learned counsel intends to withdraw the present writ petition to enable the petitioner to avail his statutory right of appeal, within a period of one month from today. Dismissed as withdrawn, with the aforesaid liberty, as prayed for. Till then (one month), the parties are directed to maintain status quo with regard to the existing position/possession of the property in dispute. Needless to mention that if the petitioner file an application for condonation of delay, then the same will be considered sympathetically by the First Appellate Court. December 07, 2011 (Mehinder Singh Sullar) naresh.k Judge