CIVIL MISC. NO.4900 OF 2011 & CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.5618 OF 2011 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: APRIL 05 ,2011 Faridabad Estate Agents Welfare Association, Faridabad .....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and another ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. Puneet Bali, Advocate, for the petitioner. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. Faridabad Estate Agents Welfare Association has approached this Court for quashing the communication dated 18.3.2011 (Annexure P-1) issued by District Collector, Faridabad, on the ground that exorbitant rates of the land have been fixed arbitrarily for registering the sale deed, which is without any authority of law. The copy of the communication dated 18.3.2011 is annexed with the petition as Annexure P-1 and perusal thereof would show that this communication is addressed by District Collector to Sub Registrar, Faridabad/ballabgarh. It is, thus, an inter-department communication and has not been addressed to either the petitioner or any other CIVIL MISC. NO.4900 OF 2011 & CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.5618 OF 2011 :{ 2 }: individual as such. Therefore, at the outset counsel for the petitioner was required to make submission in regard to the locus and right of the petitioner-Association to file this writ petition to challenge the inter-departmental communication and also of the locus of the petitioner to file this petition without any cause. Though the counsel for the petitioner maintained that communication Annexure P-1 is not an inter-departmental communication and hence, the petitioner could maintain the challenge against the same but no substantial submissions could be made in this regard to reveal the cause, which would entitle the petitioner-Association to file and maintain this writ petition. The cause of action to challenge the fixing of minimum rates would arise only if on that basis any action was taken to refuse registration of sale deed on the ground that stamp duty rates as fixed by the Collector is not affixed. This would be an individual cause and certainly would not give any cause of grievance to Association of Estate Agents. They (Estate Agents) would never be required to affix any stamp duty. Petitioner is an Association of agents who would be charging commission and have no concern with affixing stamp duty. Thus, there would not be any cause for them to agitate against the affixation of minimum rates for registering a sale deed. The issue as raised in the writ petition in regard to the power of the Deputy Commissioner to affix the rates for registering sale deeds is left open and can be gone into in an appropriate case if any person aggrieved makes an approach. The issue whether person would have a right to challenge such an inter-departmental CIVIL MISC. NO.4900 OF 2011 & CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.5618 OF 2011 :{ 3 }: communication is also left open. There is no cause, which the petitioner can agitate, especially so when they have approached not with individual cause but as an Association without any order, which they could legally impugn. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed. April 05,2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE