Civil Writ Petition No. 7045 of 2007 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 7045 of 2007 Date of Order: 06.07.2010 Satpal & others ....Petitioners Versus Commissioner, Ambala Division, Ambala and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIVE BHALLA Present: Mr. Rajinder Goyal,Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Gagandeep Singh Wasu, Sr. DAG, Haryana for respondents no.1 to 3. Mr. Kuldeep Tiwari , Advocate for respondent No.4 Mr. Sushil Gautam, Advocate for respondents no.5,6,7, and 16 to 18. RAJIVE BHALLA, J (Oral). The petitioners, challenge the orders dated 05.03.2004, 09.03.2005, and 03.01.2007, passed by the Assistant Collector Ist Grade and the Collector, Guhla, District Kaithal, and the Commissioner, Ambala Division, Ambala, respectively. Counsel for the petitioners submits that as the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') does not provide a remedy after the framing of a sanad takseem, the writ petition may be decided on merits. However, when faced with the Division Bench judgments in Amar Khan and others V. State of Punjab and others, 2009(1) RCR (Civil), 741, P & H and Resham Singh @ Dilbagh Singh V. Assistant Collector, Ist Grade-cum-Tehsildar, Phillaur and others Civil Writ Petition No. 7045 of 2007 -2- CWP No.19985 of 2005 decided on 15.05.2007, counsel for the petitioners, prays that the petitioners may be relegated to their remedy of filing a revision petition before the Financial Commissioner. Counsel for the private respondents submits that as the sanad takseem has been sanctioned and partition proceedings have attained finality, the filing of a revision before the Financial Commissioner would be an empty formality. I have heard counsel for the parties. Section 16 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, empowers the Financial Commissioner to call for and examine the record of any case or orders passed by subordinate revenue officers. In Amar Khan and others V. State of Punjab and others, 2009(1) RCR (Civil), 741, P & H and Resham Singh @ Dilbagh Singh V. Assistant Collector, Ist Grade- cum-Tehsildar, Phillaur and others CWP No.19985 of 2005 decided on 15.05.2007, after considering the absence of any remedy, against a sanad takseem, it was held that the Financial Commissioner is empowered to entertain a revision even where a sanad takseem has been drawn up The writ petition is, therefore, disposed of with liberty to the petitioners to file an appropriate revision before the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Haryana. In case, such a revision is filed, before the Financial Commissioner, within one month, parties shall maintain status quo with respect to possession for a period of one month. July 06, 2010 (RAJIVE BHALLA) nt JUDGE