C.W.P. No. 22756 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No. 22756 of 2011 Date of Decision:- 08.12.2011 Sukhwinder Singh and others .....Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARAMJEET SINGH Present:- Mr. Atul Lakhanpal, Sr. Advocate with Mr. R. S. Chahal, Advocate for the petitioners. **** SATISH KUMAR MITTAL, J(Oral). The short prayer made in this petition is for issuing direction to the Collector where the title suit filed by the petitioners Under Section 11 of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 (for short 'the Act'), is pending for considering the application of the petitioners for staying dispossession of the petitioners from the land in question. Undisputedly, the petitioners were ordered to be evicted on an application filed under section 7 of the Act, by the Gram Panchayat, vide order dated 13.4.2011. The said order was affirmed in appeal. However, those orders were challenged by the petitioners by filing CWP Nos. 18409 to 18417 of 2011 and the said petitions were dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to file title suit under Section 11 of the Act. After the said withdrawal, the petitioners filed the title suit (Annexure P-11) before the Collector, Tarn Taran along with an application C.W.P. No. 22756 of 2011 2 for staying dispossession of the petitioners. The said petition is still pending. The grouse of the petitioners is that the Collector is not taking any decision on the said application filed by the petitioners. Notice of motion. Mr. Manohar Lall, Addl. AG Punjab, who is present in Court, accepts notice. After hearing learned counsel for the parties, we dispose of the present writ petition with direction to the Collector that in case the petitioners deposit the mesne profit for the use and occupation of the land in question at the rate of Rs. 20,000/- per acre per annum from the date the ejectment order was passed against them, the prayer of the petitioners for staying their dispossession will be considered positively. The dispossession of the petitioners shall only be stayed on depositing the aforesaid amount in the Court with an undertaking that they will continuously pay the amount in future. Disposed of in the aforesaid terms. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) JUDGE 08.12.2011 ( PARAMJEET SINGH ) reema JUDGE