LPA No.484 of 2009 -: 1 :- IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH LPA No.484 of 2009 Date of decision: June 04, 2009. Gurmeet Singh ...Petitioner(s) v. The Divisional Canal Officer, Abohar & Ors. ...Respondent(s) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Shri Surinder Pal Singh Tinna, Advocate for the appellant. ORDER Surya Kant, J. - (Oral): This Letters Patent Appeal under Clause X of the Letters Patent is directed against the order dated May 08, 2009, whereby the appellant's civil writ petition, seeking quashing of certain directives issued by the Divisional Canal Officer, Abohar Canal Division, Tehsil Abohar, District Ferozepur, has been dismissed as premature, leaving it open for him to resort to alternative remedies, as may be available under the Northern India Canal & Drainage Act, 1873 (for short the Act). The appellant's grievance is that unless a formal order is passed by the Deputy Collector under Section 68 of the Act, no directions for a LPA No.484 of 2009 -: 2 :- fresh warawandi could be issued and no formal order having been passed by the Divisional Canal Officer and/or the Deputy Collector, as the case may be, the appellant has been deprived of his right to file a statutory appeal under the Act. Having heard Learned Counsel for the appellant and on perusal of the record, we are of the considered view that no interference is called for in the impugned order passed by the Learned Single Judge. Suffice it to say that the directives/letters issued by the Divisional Canal Officer, Abohar, in terms whereof the appellant's warawandi is sought to be adversely affected, shall tantamount to and be taken as the orders passed under the Act, enabling the appellant to impugn the same before the appellate authority under the Act, namely, the Superintending Canal Officer. The appeal is accordingly disposed of with liberty to the appellant to approach the appellate authority, i.e., the Superintending Canal Officer. If the appellant files an appeal, along with an application for stay within a period of one week from today, we direct the appellate authority to dispose of the stay application within one week of its filing. Dasti. [ Surya Kant ] Judge June 04, 2009. [ Augustine George Masih] kadyan Judge