Civil Revision No.327 of 2010 -1- **** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.327 of 2010 Date of decision: 5.5.2010 Swaran Kaur ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Election Tribunal-cum-Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Patiala and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.D.ANAND. Present: Mr. N.P.S.Mann, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Baljinder Singh, Advocate for the respondent. S.D.ANAND, J. It is apparent from a perusal of the impugned order that it is cryptic and non speaking in nature. The competent authority neither indicated the plea raised by the applying party nor the resistance offered by the party opposite. It also did not indicate what weighed with the competent authority in the grant of the plea. The petition shall stand allowed. The impugned order shall stand set aside. The parties, through their learned counsel, are directed to appear before the competent authority on 7.5.2010 at 10.00 A.M. The competent authority shall hear the parties on that date and disposed of the relevant plea on that date itself. This Court has come across instances aplenty where the Presiding Officers of various adjudicatory forums have been found to have granted orders which were, by any standard of interpretation, cryptic and Civil Revision No.327 of 2010 -2- **** non-speaking in character. Those charged with functions of adjudicatory character must realise that determination of this character must notice the stances of the parties and whatever weighs with the forum to take a particular view. Orders touching the interest of the litigating parties have to be compulsively transparent and speaking in character. The grant of non- speaking orders forces the adversely affected party to go to the higher forum which (higher forum) feels handicapped in finding out what weighed with the forum in taking the view under challenge. The grant of such an order amounts to nothing less than travesty of justice. It not only unnecessarily adds to the heavy dockets in the higher forum, it also causes wastage of time and energy of the Presiding Officers of the higher forums which (time and energy) could be utilised for deciding other pending files. Disposed of accordingly. Copy of the order be given to the learned counsel for the parties dasti. A copy of the order shall also be forwarded to the Chief Secretaries of the States of Punjab and Haryana and also the Advisor, Union Territory, Chandigarh, for the information of all concerned. May 05, 2010 (S.D.Anand) Pka Judge