Civil Revision No.3670 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.3670 of 2009 Date of decision:24.02.2010. Jasbir Kaur and others ...Petitioners Versus Sh. Dalwant Singh and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE S.D.ANAND. Present: Mr. R.S.Bajaj, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. G.S.Jaswal, Advocate, for the respondents. ***** S.D.ANAND, J. It is presently common ground that a plea for additional evidence raised by the petitioners herein (and quoted in the course of para No.5 of the present petition) was not disposed of by the learned Appellate Authority, which proceeded to dispose of the appeal on merits thereof. In view of the law laid down in Jagir Kaur vs. Nirmal Singh 1993(2) PLR 375, Shadi Lal and others Vs. Municipal Committee, Rewari 1994 (1) PLR 633, Sadhu Ram Verma vs. Pawan Kumar 2006(2) RCR 95, Rajbir Singh vs. Virender Singh and others 1996(1) PLR 703, Charan Singh and another Vs. Jagtar Singh and others 1999(1) PLR 719, and Jatinder Singh and another minor through mother Vs. Mehar Singh and others JT 2008(11) SC 30, the matter has to be remanded for a decision Civil Revision No.3670 of 2009 -2- afresh. In the light of the facts noticed above, the judgment dated 05.05.2009 shall stand set aside. The parties, through their learned counsel, are directed to appear before the learned Appellate Authority on 10.03.2010. The learned Appellate Authority shall decide the plea for additional evidence within 15 days from 10.03.2010. If the application (for additional evidence) does not find favour with the learned Appellate Authority, it shall have no difficulty in deciding the matter on merits immediately thereafter. If the plea for additional evidence is allowed by the learned Appellate Authority, the requisitioning of the relevant witnesses and the rebuttal thereof would be expected to take some more time. In that eventuality, the learned Appellate Authority shall have time till 15.04.2010 to conclude the adjudication on merits thereof. February 24, 2010 (S.D.ANAND) vinod* JUDGECR