IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No. 1167 of 2011 Date of decision: March 29, 2011 Ram Sarup .. Petitioner Vs. State of Haryana and another .. Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.N. Jindal Present: Mr. M.L. Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sukant Gupta, Addl. A.G. Haryana. A.N. Jindal, J (Oral) Both the parties do not dispute the ratio of law as laid down in case M/s Swatantra Land & Finance Pvt. Ltd. vs. State of Haryana, AIR 1975 Punjab & Haryana 52, wherein it was observed that the Land Acquisition Collector has no power to dismiss the reference on the ground of limitation. However, it was obligatory on his part to send the same to the reference court with his own observations. In this view of the matter, this petition is allowed, impugned order is set aside and the Land Acquisition Collector is directed to proceed in accordance with law. March 29, 2011 (A.N. Jindal) deepak Judge