IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No. 8658 of 2011 Date of decision : 17.05.2011 Makhan Masin ...Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR Present: Mr. V.K. Sandhir, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Naiya Gill, Advocate for the Caveator. **** M ehinder S ingh S ullar, J. (Oral) Issue notice of motion. At this stage, Ms. Naiya Gill, Advocate appears and accept notice on behalf of Varinder Kaur-Caveator and Mr. Sartaj Singh Gill, D.A.G., Punjab accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. The main grievance emanating from the record is that although, the petitioner has filed the statutory appeal along with the stay application before Secretary, Department of Rural Development and Panchayat, Punjab-respondent No.1 (Appellate Authority), but the same has been adjourned to 04.07.2011 for preliminary hearing, without passing any order on the stay application. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, going through the record, with their valuable assistance and after considering the entire matter deeply, the instant writ petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent No.1, to decide the stay application filed by the petitioner on the next date of hearing. Meanwhile, the operation of impugned order shall remain stayed. May 17, 2011 (Mehinder Singh Sullar) naresh.k Judge