Civil Writ Petition No. 2483 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 2483 of 2010 Date of decision:11th February, 2010 Raghbir Singh .......Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others .......Respondents Before: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Kuldeep V.Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Rajan Gupta,J.(Oral) The only grievance of the petitioner in the present writ petition is that first election petition which is pending before the Election Commission since 6.11.2008, has not been decided so far. Learned counsel for the petitioner, has drawn the attention of this Court to order dated 22.10.2008, passed in CWP No. 13313 of 2008 titled as “Raghbir Singh Versus State of Punjab and others”. The operative part of order, which reads thus:- “In view of the above, this writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioners to file an election petition under Section 76 read with Section 89 of the Act, challenging the election of respondent No. 8. In case the election petition is filled within three weeks from today, the Election Tribunal is Civil Writ Petition No. 2483 of 2010 -2- directed to decide the same on merits expeditiously.” Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that it has been laid down in Section 80(6) of the Punjab State Election Commission Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Act'), that every election petition shall be tried as expeditiously as possible and every endeavour shall be made to conclude the trial within a period of 6 months from the date of which the election petition is presented to the Election Tribunal. Notice of motion. On the asking of the Court, Mr. J.S.Puri, Addl. Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of respondent Nos. 1 to 3. He submits that he has no objection if a direction is given to the Election Commission to conclude the trial of the election petition expeditiously. In view of the above, this petition stands disposed of and it is directed that the Election Commission shall endeavour to conclude the trial as expeditiously as possible, keeping in view the direction given by this Court in CWP No.13313 of 2008 (supra) and a provision of the Act. A copy of this order be handed over to learned State counsel under the signatures of the Court Secretary. [RAJAN GUPTA] JUDGE 11th February, 2010 Shivani Kaushik