IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.6396 of 2010 Date of decision:04.05.2010 M/s Ajay Construction Co. M-95, Greater Kailash Part-II, New Delhi-48, through its proprietor Shri V.K.Madan. ….Petitioner versus State of Haryana and others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ------ Present: Mr. D.K. Singal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Ravi Dutt Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for respondents 1 to 3. ----- 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? ----- K.Kannan, J (Oral) The writ petition has challenged the policies/instructions dated 07.10.2008 (Annexure P-3) and the office order issued with reference to the same subject earlier on 22.09.2008 (Annexure P-1). The written statement has been filed by the respondents 1 to 3 by way of a short affidavit that the impugned instructions have been superseded by the Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to the Government, by his memo dated 10.08.2009 and a copy of the memo has also been filed in this regard as Annexure R-1. The impugned proceedings are not any longer in existence and the petitioner shall have no apprehension Civil Writ Petition No.6396 of 2010 - 2 - about the impartiality of the proceedings before the Arbitrator. Having regard to the specific stand taken in the written statement, the petition is disposed of as having become infructuous. The Arbitrator shall continue with the proceedings and render an adjudication as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of 4 weeks from the date of receipt of the copy of the order. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 04.05.2010 sanjeev