IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 12819 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : 24.07.2008 Manohar Lal .... PETITIONER Versus State of Haryana and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH Present: Mr. Namit Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner has filed this petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuing direction to respondent No.2 to take action against respondents No.4 and 5 for electricity theft. It is the case of the petitioner that he has made a complaint dated 29.3.2008 (Annexure P-2) to respondent No.2 regarding the alleged theft of the electricity by respondents No.4 and 5, but in spite of that, respondent No.2 is not taking any action. The petitioner has also made a prayer that in accordance with the policy of respondent No.2, he should also be awarded a cash award of Rs. 50,000/- for giving the information to the Electricity Department regarding the theft of electricity. CWP No. 12819 of 2008 -2- After hearing counsel for the petitioner and going through the contents of this writ petition, we dispose of this petition with a direction to respondent No.2 to look into the complaint (Annexure P-2), made by the petitioner, and if any theft of electricity is detected, respondent No.2 will proceed in accordance with law. However, it is made clear that in case, the complaint made by the petitioner is found to be false, respondent No.2 may register a case against the petitioner for giving false information to the authorities. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE July 24, 2008 ( AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH ) ndj JUDGE