CWP No. 2041 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 2041 of 2011 Date of decision:- 03.02.2011 Industrial Development Association (Regd.) Registered Office 683-P, Sector 37, Pace City-II, Gurgaon – 122001, Haryana through its President Sh. Hari Sharma. ......Petitioner Vs State of Haryana and others. ......Respondents CORAM:-HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH Present: Mr. S.S. Behl, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * * RANJAN GOGOI, A.C.J. (ORAL) This PIL has been filed seeking a restraint order on the respondents from opening a slaughter house in Industrial Area, Sector 37, Gurgaon. The short contention advanced is that there was an earlier writ petition i.e. CWP No. 20573 of 2002 on the same subject matter which was disposed of by this Court on 16.07.2003 by directing the concerned authority to look into the matter. Thereafter, according to the petitioner-association, no steps were taken in this regard until the year 2008 when the issue was resurrected again and the slaughter house is sought to be established in Sector 37, Gurgaon. According to the CWP No. 2041 of 2011 2 petitioner-association, opening of the slaughter house in the location proposed will pose to be an environmental hazard to the residents of Sector 37, Gurgaon. The President of the petitioner-association co- incidentally is a resident of the aforesaid Sector. Be that as it may, it appears that on 14.01.2011 a representation had been addressed in this regard to the Departmental Minister with copies to the Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon and Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon as well as to the Haryana Urban Development Authority. As the representation has been filed only on 14.01.2011, we are of the view that the petitioner-association ought to have waited for a reasonable time for disposal of the representation and thereafter should have approached this Court if it had any subsisting grievance. Instead the petitioner-association has rushed to the Court. In the aforesaid circumstances, we do not consider it appropriate to entertain this PIL at this stage. The representation filed may be disposed of by the concerned authority at the earliest whereafter if the petitioner-association has any grievance it would be open for it to approach this Court once again, if so advised. PIL is disposed of in the above terms. (RANJAN GOGOI) ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE (AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH) JUDGE 03.02.2011 Amodh