IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.17158 of 2010 Date of Decision : September 22, 2010. S.S.Harbhagwan School Managing Committee, Samana .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.K.S.Bassi, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) Notice of motion to respondent Nos.1 to 3 only at this stage. Mr.K.D.S.Sidhu, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on their behalf. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to issue notice to respondent No.4 nor the counter-reply from respondent Nos.1 to 3 is needed at this stage. C.W.P.No .17158 of 2010 2 The petitioner claims itself to be a validly elected Managing Committee of S.S.Harbhawan School Managing Committee, Samana, District Patiala. It is alleged that a parallel Managing Committee appointed with the connivance of the Correspondent appointed by the Government for running the affairs of the School, was also constituted through it did not get approval from the State Government and an action was directed to be taken against that Correspondent, Mr.Jagjit Singh Sarao, vide order dated 19.1.2010 (Annexure P-8). It is further alleged that as against the fake and unauthorisedly constituted Managing Committee through Ashok Kumar, it is the petitioner-Managing Committee who has been validly elected by the representatives of the governing body and is entitled to get the necessary approval from the Education Department, Punjab. In this regard, the petitioner is said to have represented the respondent-authorities several times followed by legal notices dated 12.10.2009 and 29.7.2010 (Annexures P-7 & P-9 respectively) but no decision with regard to recognition/approval of the petitioner-Managing Committee appears to have been taken so far. In my considered view, it is essentially in the interest of the students and the general public that the Competent Authority takes an appropriate decision on the issue of recognition of the Managing Committee so that the day to day affairs of the School are run smoothly. In these circumstances, however, without expressing any views on the merits of the petitioner's claim, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent Nos.2 & 3 to consider the above- C.W.P.No .17158 of 2010 3 noticed claimed of the petitioner, especially as contained in the legal notice dated 29.7.2010 (Annexure P-9) and dispose of the same by passing a speaking order, preferably within a period of two months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. September 22, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE