IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH COCP No. 2155 of 2010 Date of decision:- 19.11.2010 Joginder Pal and others ......petitioners vs. Bal Sharan Singh and ors ......respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA Present: - Mr. Vishal Aggarwal, Advocate for the petitioners HEMANT GUPTA, J (ORAL) The land of the petitioners was acquired under Requisition and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1952. The appeal against the award of the Arbitrator was allowed by this Court on 31.1.1989, wherein the State was directed to make the payment of the compensation amount within three months. The Letters Patent Appeal has since been dismissed. Now, the land owner has filed the present contempt petition. The award passed by the Arbitrator as modified by learned Single Judge of this Court and affirmed by Letters Patent Bench, is an executable award. Mere non payment of compensation in terms of the direction of this Court does not disclose any civil contempt as has been held by this Court in Full Bench judgment of this Court in Parkash Chand vs. S.S. Grewal and others 1975, CRL. L.J. 679. In view of the said fact, the present petition stands dismissed. It is open to the petitioners to take recourse to the remedy as may be available to them in accordance with law. (HEMANT GUPTA) JUDGE 19.11.2010 preeti