IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 15175 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : 14.11.2008 Jasvir Singh .... PETITIONER Versus State of Punjab and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Mr. S.S. Chandi, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. M.S. Sindhu, Addl. A.G., Punjab, for the respondents. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner, who is one of the elected Panches of Gram Panchayat, village Kang Sahib Rai, Tehsil Nakodar, District Jalandhar, has filed this petition under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuing direction to the Deputy Commissioner, Jalandhar (respondent No.2 herein) to convene the meeting of the elected Panches of the aforesaid Gram Panchayat under Section 13-A of the Punjab Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, for the purpose of election of the office of Sarpanch of the Gram Panchayat. CWP No. 15175 of 2008 -2- In the petition, it has been stated that after the election of the Panches was duly notified, respondent No.2 authorised the Deputy Electoral Officer Cum Sub Divisional Magistrate, Nakodar to hold the election of the office of Sarpanch and the said meeting was to be held on 15.7.2008. Subsequently, the Additional Deputy Commissioner (D)-cum-Additional District Electoral Officer, Jalandhar (respondent No.3 herein), vide letter dated 14.7.2008, stayed the holding of the said meeting of the Panches for holding the election of the Sarpanch on the ground that name of one of the Panches, namely Lakhvir Singh, was wrongly notified as elected Panch, instead of one Bahahdur Singh, who secured more votes than Lakhvir Singh. Learned counsel for the respondents states that the State Election Commission, Punjab, vide order dated 1.10.2008, has accepted the report of the District Election Officer, Jalandhar, in which it was recommended that name of Bahadur Singh, who had actually secured more votes than Lakhvir Singh, should be notified as Panch of the Gram Panchayat. Learned counsel further states that in view of the said order, the correct notification will be issued within two weeks and thereafter, within further two weeks, meeting of the elected Panches of the Gram Panchayat shall be convened for the election of the Sarpanch of the Gram Panchayat, in accordance with law. In view of the aforesaid statement, made by learned counsel for the respondents, learned counsel for the petitioner states that he does not CWP No. 15175 of 2008 -3- want to press this petition at this stage. Dismissed as not pressed. A copy of this order be given to learned counsel for the respondents, under the signatures of the Court Secretary of this Court. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE November 14, 2008 ( JASWANT SINGH ) ndj JUDGE