IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11610 of 2010 Date of decision: 12th August, 2010 Niranjan Singh … Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others … Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Harkesh Manuja, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Himanshu Raj, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana for the respondents. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL) Counsel for the State has filed written statement on behalf of the respondents in Court today. The same is taken on record. In the present writ petition, petitioner has challenged the notification dated 4th January, 2010 (Annexure P-1), whereby the Gram Panchayat Siwanamal was bifurcated into new Hadbast No.17 along with subsequent notification dated 9th April, 2010 (Annexure P-5), whereby the boundaries of the newly carved out Naya Gaon Siwanamal Hadbast No.17 were defined. Counsel for the petitioner has submitted that since after the issuance of these notifications, election of the Gram Panchayat has already been held and Sarpanch and the Panches have been elected from various Wards, he will not be in a position to challenge the election. However, in the alternative he has prayed that since the bifurcation of Civil Writ Petition No.11610 of 2010 newly formed Gram Panchayat and its Warabandi was not done in consonance with the provisions of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 petitioner be allowed to represent the authorities to do the needful before the next election. There is merit in the alternative prayer made by the counsel for the petitioner. In case such a representation is made, the authorities shall consider the same by passing a speaking order within a period of six months. The authorities, while deciding the representation, if come to a conclusion that fresh Warabandi is to be drawn or new Wards are to be made, that shall have no effect on the election already held. With the observations made above, present revision petition is disposed of. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE August 12, 2010 rps 2