CWP No. 2348 of 2008 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 2348 of 2008 Date of Decision: 18.2.2008 Ashok Kumar ......Petitioner through Mr. Munish Singal, Advocate versus State of Punjab and others Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIJENDER JAIN, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA 1. Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest ? ***** Vijender Jain, Chief Justice (Oral) Counsel for the petitioner has assailed the findings of Additional Chief Administrator, Punjab Urban Development Authority on the ground that the order passed on 17.05.2006 was sent to him only on 7.6.2006 and therefore, the order could not have been complied with within time. He contends that on 19.05.2006 the petitioner had deposited a sum of Rs. 99,600/-. He further contends that now the petitioner is willing to deposit the entire amount with interest. We have gone through the record of the case file. CWP No. 2348 of 2008 [2] No relief can be granted to the petitioner. The petitioner was never interested in depositing the amount. The theory put in by learned counsel for the petitioner that order dated 17.5.2006 was communicated to him on 7.6.2006 is without any basis. There was no need to communicate the said order to the petitioner as on 17.5.2006 the petitioner himself had undertaken before the Addl. Chief Administrator, PUDA that he may be given one day time so that the remaining amount may be deposited on 18.5.2006. The stand taken by the petitioner is further falsified because the amount of Rs.99,600/- so deposited was pursuant to the undertaking which the petitioner himself had given on 17.5.2006 to the Addl. Chief Administrator, PUDA and if that was not so, then what was the occasion for the petitioner to deposit the amount of Rs.99,600/- on 19.5.2006, as order dated 17.5.2006, according to the petitioner was communicated only on 7.6.2006. Before parting, we must also observe that there is huge demand amongst other people of the State of Punjab for plots developed by PUDA. It is only the needy persons who acquire the plots for their own habitat and to pay the installments in time, they should be given preference for such allotments instead of a person who was allotted a plot in the year 1999 and did not deposit the out standing amount on account of installments till 6.8.2003 when the allotment was cancelled and thereafter, he specifically sought time from the Appellate Authority by giving an undertaking that he would deposit the amount within one day and when he failed to deposit the same, he started making lame excuse of not receiving the order till 7.6.2006. Otherwise, the plots will not go to the needy persons and it will go to the CWP No. 2348 of 2008 [3] persons who take these as investment ventures and speculate thereon as has been rightly held by the Revisional Authority. There is no merit in this petition. Dismissed. (VIJENDER JAIN) CHIEF JUSTICE (KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA) JUDGE 18.2.2008 'ravinder'