C.W.P NO. 4809 OF 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANIDGARH C.W.P NO. 4809 OF 2009 DECIDED ON : 26.03.2009 Satish Kumar and others ...Petitioners versus HUDA and another ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT Present : Mr. Vikram Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners. SURYA KANT, J. (ORAL) Notice of motion. Ms. Kamla Malik, Advocate, learned Standing Counsel for HUDA, who is present in Court, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Keeping in view the directions which I propose to issue in this writ petition, there is no necessity to call for any counter- affidavit on behalf of the respondents. The petitioners seek a direction to the respondent- HUDA authorities to charge simple interest from them at the rates stipulated in the allotment letter on the outstanding amount and not to charge the compound interest. C.W.P NO. 4809 OF 2009 -2- During the course of hearing, it has been urged on behalf of the petitioners and rightly so that similar controversy, namely, entitlement of the respondent-HUDA to charge compound interest in such like situation, has been gone into by a Division Bench of this Court vide judgments dated 06.12.2008 and 06.01.2009 rendered in C.W.P Nos. 12126 of 2007 (Brij Lal Garg v. HUDA and anr) and 17354 of 2007 (Ram Gopal v. HUDA and anr), respectively. Very recently the Hon'ble Supreme Court has also dealt with the issue in a judgment dated March 17, 2009 rendered in Civil Appeal No. 1994 of 2006 (U.T. Chandigarh Administration v. Amarjeet Singh and ors.). The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the respondents to consider the petitioners' entitlement/claim, if any, against charging of the compound interest in the light of the aforementioned judgments and dispose of the same by passing a reasoned order within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. Disposed of. MARCH 26, 2009 (SURYA KANT) shalini JUDGE