Civil Writ Petition No. 21151 of 2008 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 21151 of 2008 Date of Decision: December 17, 2008 Harminderjit Singh ............ Petitioner versus Union of India and others ............. Respondents CORAM HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA. HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH 1.Whether Reporters of local papers 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 ? -.- Present: Shri Anupam Bhardwaj, Advocate and Shri Ashish Mahajan, Advocate for the petitioner. HEMANT GUPTA, J. The petitioner has sought quashing of order dated May 08, 2008, Annexure P-3, having purchased the land measuring 13 Kanals 2 Marlas vide registered sale deed dated 02.11.1998 from Raghbir Singh s/o Mehain Singh. In Civil Writ Petition No. 14655 of 2008 titled Dilsher Singh and others vs. Union of India and others, decided vide separate order of even date, the issue regarding sale of land by the legal heirs of Mehain Singh was subject matter of dispute. As per findings recorded therein, the Civil Writ Petition No. 21151 of 2008 [2] property owned by Mehain Singh was forfeited to State in terms of the provisions of Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976 ( for short : SAFEM (FOP) Act” ) and challenge to the said forfeiture has remained unsuccessful. The writ petitions filed by some other purchases vendees from Amolak Singh and Raghbir Singh sons of Mehain Singh have been dealt with in the aforesaid CWP No. 14655 of 2008. For the reasons recorded in aforementioned CWP No. 14655 of 2008, present writ petition is also dismissed. (Hemant Gupta) Judge December 17, 2008 (Augustine George Masih) ks Judge