IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 4249 of 2009 Date of Decision: 18.03.2011 Daljeet Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present : Mr. H.C.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Rupinder Khosla, Addl. A.G. Punjab, for respondents No. 1,2 and 4. Ms. Surabhi Parashar, Advocate for Mr. Chander Mohan Sharma, Advocate, for respondent No.3. Mr. Hemant Saini, Advocate, for respondent No.5. **** RANJAN GOGOI, C.J.(Oral) Shri Khosla, learned Addl. Advocate General, Punjab has submitted that pursuant to the order dated 07.02.2011 of this Court ex-gratia compensation of Rs. One lac each for each child has been paid to the parents of the deceased children. An amount of ` 1,50,000/- has already been paid to the parents by the respondent No.5 Sahib Singh. From the materials on record and interaction that one of us (Ranjan Gogoi, Chief Justice) had with the parents of the deceased it appears that the said parents are not interested in pursuing the matter and would like to live peacefully leaving behind the memories of the ghastly incident that took away the lives of their children. We CWP No. 4249 of 2009 [2] are, therefore, of the view that this Public Interest Litigation should not call for any orders from us save and except that the alleged negligence/inaction of the police officials named in the writ petition may be duly investigated by the authorities of the State and further action, as may be called, for may be taken. Shri Arora, learned counsel for the petitioner has brought to our notice the rampant growth of illegal crackers manufacturing units in Amritsar and has, infact, drawn our attention to a news item published in 'Hindustan Times' dated 01.11.2010 with regard to the another blast that took the life of one innocent person. Shri Arora has submitted that the intervention of the Court is called for and appropriate directions should be issued to the State to take suitable steps in the matter. As we are inclined to close this writ petition we do not think that it would be proper on our part to pursue the matter highlighted by Shri Arora in the present writ petition. However, we leave it open to any of the responsible citizen to pursue the matter by way of a separate action, if so advised. We accordingly close this Public Interest Litigation in terms of the directions and observations contained above. (RANJAN GOGOI) CHIEF JUSTICE (AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH) JUDGE 18.03.2011 'ravinder'