IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.15805 of 1991 (O&M) Date of decision:22.07.2011 Mandir Shri Gopal Ji (Multan) registered through Shri Ganpat Ram Malhotra, President, Gopal Ji Mandir Farash Khana, Delhi. ...Petitioner versus Union of India through Secretary, Ministry of Rehabilitation Jaisalmer House, Man Singh Road, New Delhi and others. ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: None for the petitioner. Mr. Rajiv Sharma, Advocate, for respondent No.1. Mr. Satbir Singh Goripura, DAG, Haryana, for respondents 2 to 4. None for respondents 5 to 16. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No. 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No. 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No. ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. The petitioner is a religious institution, who claimed an allotment as a displaced institution at the time of partition and claiming the property to be allotted to it in lieu of the property that had been abandoned in Pakistan. It appears that originally the allotment was made, but subsequently withdrawn and put up for auction on the ground that the law did not provide for treating a religious institution as a displaced Civil Writ Petition No.15805 of 1991 (O&M) - 2 - person to whom the benefit of allotment could have been made. 2. There is no representation for the petitioner. The counsel for the State and Union of India are present and ready. I notice from the file that even on the day when the case was admitted on 29.04.1992, there was no representation for the petitioner. The writ petition is dismissed for default for non-prosecution. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE 22.07.2011 sanjeev