IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2695 of 2011 Date of decision: 14.02.2011 Jarnail Singh and others …..Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.Anish Garg, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer that a direction be issued to the Land Acquisition Tribunal/ the Additional District Judge at Patiala, to decide an application moved by the petitioners under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act), at an early date. It is stated in the writ petition that the application is pending for hearing since year 2004. It is an acquisition matter. Such like matters are supposed to be decided expeditiously. This writ petition is disposed of with a hope that the officer will make an attempt to decide this matter as early as possible. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 14.02.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge