IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.4207 of 2011 Date of decision: 09.03.2011 Jagmail Singh …..Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.Fariad Singh Virk, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer that a writ of mandamus be issued to direct the respondents to pay balance amount of compensation to the petitioner as per an award dated 28.5.2009 (P1). As per the facts on record, process to acquire the land was initiated by issuing a notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act) on 29.9.2007 and an award was passed on 28.5.2009. It is case of the petitioner that only 80% of the amount of compensation has been disbursed and in spite of the requests made, rest of the amount has not been released. To say that the petitioner has approached the respondents for release of the balance amount, reference is made to the applications annexures P3 and P4. During arguments, it transpires that no order has been passed on those applications. Civil Writ Petition No.4207 of 2011 In view of the facts of this case, we dispose of this writ petition, directing respondent No.2 to take note and pass an appropriate order on the applications made by the petitioner i.e. Annexures P3 and P4. It is made clear that if the amount is found due to the petitioner and there is no legal hitch in making payment, the same be released in favour of the petitioner. To the contrary, a speaking order be passed. Needful shall be done within three months from the receipt of a copy of this order. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 09.03.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge 2