IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 15377 of 1991 Date of decision: 04.08.2011 Shri Partap Singh ...Petitioner Versus Divisional Canal Officer and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH Present: Mr. Vineet Sehgal, Advocate for Mr. Sanjiv Bansal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sunil Nehra, Sr. DAG, Haryana for the State. Mr. Jaswant Jain, Advocate for respondents No. 4 to 9, 11 to 16 and 19 to 26. ***** The petitioner has filed this writ petition to impugn order dated 06.09.1991. The Chief Canal Officer had found no technical justification in transferring the outlet RD 46500-R to outlet RD 48500- R of Rana distributory. He has, accordingly, accepted the appeal and set aside the decision of Superintending Canal Officer. While admitting the writ petition, the interim directions staying the operation of the order passed by the Chief Canal Officer was made. It appears that this order has continued to remain in operation ever since 1991. Without going into the merits of the controversy, it will not be appropriate and fair to disturb the arrangement, which has continued nearly for 20 years. To be fair to the counsel, they had made their respective submissions to support their pleas but in view of this position and lapse of time, no case is made out to interfere in Civil Writ Petition No. 15377 of 1991 -2- the existing arrangement which has continued for all these years. Parties have now become accustomed to this arrangement. The writ petition is, accordingly, allowed and the existing arrangement shall continue, which in any case has continued for large number of years. August 04, 2011 (RANJIT SINGH) rts JUDGE