Civil Writ Petition No. 11390 of 2010 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh. Civil Writ Petition No. 11390 of 2010 Date of Decision: 1.7.2010 Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited …Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and Another …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Mr. Vikas Chatrath, Advocate for the petitioner. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) Issue notice of motion. On the asking of the Court Mr. J.S. Puri, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of respondent No.1. Earlier, a similar controversy was the subject matter of Civil Writ Petition No. 18961 of 2005 titled as “Punjab State Electricity Board and Another v. House Tax Sub Committee, Municipal Council, Batala and Others, decided on 29.8.2006. A Division Bench of this Court, while deciding the said writ petition, had directed the State of Punjab to constitute a Committee where the dispute between two bodies of the State can be resolved. The order, passed by the Division Bench in the said writ petition, is annexed with the present petition as Annexure P5. In pursuance of a mandate issued by the Division Bench of this Court, vide order (Annexure P5) the State Government had Civil Writ Petition No. 11390 of 2010 2 constituted a Committee vide order dated 30.11.2007 (Annexure P9). Learned counsel for the parties are in agreement that the dispute between Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited and Municipal Council, Nawanshahar, can be referred to the Committee for assessment of the house tax to be paid by the petitioner. Therefore, the present writ petition is disposed of with the observation that the dispute raised by the petitioner shall be referred to the Committee constituted in terms of Annexure P9 and the said Committee shall decide the dispute within a period of three months. Till then no recovery shall be effected. A copy of this order be given dasti on payment of usual charges. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge July 1, 2010 “DK”