Civil Writ Petition No.13249 of 1993 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.13249 of 1993 Date of decision:- 04th July, 2011 Niranjan Singh (since deceased) through legal heirs ....Petitioner Vs. Joint Development Commissioner (IRD), Punjab and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N. JINDAL Present: Mr. Balbir Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. S.S. Rangi, Advocate, for respondent No.3. A.N.JINDAL, J. The petitioner has invoked the provisions of Article 226 of the Constitution of India for quashing the order dated 25.01.1990 (Annexure P-4) passed by respondent No.2, whereby on the application filed by respondent No.3-Gram Panchayat under Section 7 of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulations) Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the Act), the petitioner was ordered to be evicted from the land in dispute. Petitioner has further sought quashing of the order dated 28.07.1993 (Annexure P-6) passed by respondent No.1, whereby the appeal filed by the petitioner against the above said order, was dismissed. The Gram Panchayat is, apparently, shown to be the owner of the land in question, to which, it was entitled to get vacated by filing an application under Section 7 of the Act. The collector as well as the appellate authority have duly appreciated the evidence and ordered the Civil Writ Petition No.13249 of 1993 2 eviction of the petitioner from the disputed land by observing that the land in dispute vests in the Gram Panchayat. As such, the present writ petition being without any merit, is dismissed. The petitioner is directed to hand over the possession of disputed land forthwith in view of the observations made by the Hon'ble Apex Court in case Jagpal Singh Vs. State of Punjab, 2011(2) Scale 42. (A.N. JINDAL) JUDGE July 04, 2011 ajp