Civil Writ Petition No. 17545 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 17545 of 2009 Date of decision : 30.03.2010 Gram Panchayat, Saidoke ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab and others ....Respondents BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. M.S. Chicha, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Puri, Additional Advocate General, Punjab for respondents No. 1 & 2. Mr. P.C. Goyal, Advocate for respondent No. 3. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) Learned State counsel submits that prayer made in the present petition has been rendered infructuous in view of the fact that total amount of Rs. 1,37,00,000/- has been released to 24 Gram Panchayats including the present petitioner (Gram Panchayat, Saidoke). He has referred to affidavit filed by Kahan Singh Pannu, Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar in this regard. Paras 2 and 3 whereof read as under:- “2. That, now the total amount of Rs. 1,37,00,000/- has been released to 24 Gram Panchayats including the present petitioners, through cheques, as per the detail of grants mentioned in Annexure- A attached herewith. 3. That as such, now there is left no claim or grievance of the petitioners against the respondent/deponent and the writ petition filed by the petitioners has become infructuous. Learned counsel for the petitioner does not dispute the factual Civil Writ Petition No. 17545 of 2009 2 submission aforesaid. In view of the above, this petition is dismissed as having been rendered infructuous. March 30, 2010 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE