IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.21794 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision : 23.11.2011 Kirpal Singh ... Petitioner versus State of Haryana & others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA Present : Mr. Rakesh Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner. **** Permod Kohli, J.(Oral) Notice of motion. On asking of the Court, Mr. R.K.S.Brar, Addl. AG, Haryana accepts notice on behalf of the respondent – State. Keeping in view the nature of controversy in this petition is concerned and with the concurrence of the parties, this petition is being disposed of at motion stage itself. It is alleged by the petitioner that land measuring 10 Bigha 7 Biswa belonging to Data Ram was acquired by the State of Haryana in the year 1962. The petitioner claims to be legal heir of Sona Devi, who was owner of land measuring 3 Bigha 9 Biswa out of the total land of 10 Bigha 7 Biswa comprising in Khasra No.248 Khewat No.1189 Khatoni No.2276 situated at Kasba Karnal. The grievance of the petitioner is that though other land owners were granted compensation but the petitioner had not been granted any compensation. It is further alleged that at the time of acquisition, list of entitlement was prepared and the name of Data Ram CWP No.21794 of 2011 (O&M) -2- was put at serial No.3 of the list. Thereafter, the land of the petitioner was acquired by the State government but no compensation was paid to him. The petitioner also sent a legal notice dated 15.09.2011 but till now the said notice was not decided. The present petition has been filed with a prayer for issuing directions to the respondents to release the compensation of the acquired land and to decide the legal notice dated 15.09.2011. This petition is disposed of with a direction to the Land Acquisition Collector – respondent No.4 to decide the legal notice within a period of three months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order by passing a reasoned and speaking order. (Permod Kohli) Judge November 23, 2011 (Tejinder Singh Dhindsa) sonia Judge