IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2069 of 2009 Date of Decision: August 19, 2011 Beant Singh & others ...Petitioners Versus Superintending Canal Officer & others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr.T.P.S.Tung, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.N.D.S.Mann, Addl.A.G.Punjab, for the State. Mr.Harinder Sharma, Advocate, for respondent Nos.3 & 4. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. This order will dispose of two Civil Writ Petition Nos.2069 of 2009 (Beant Singh and others Vs. Superintending Canal Officer and others) and 3191 of 2010 (Sadhu Singh and another Vs. Superintending Canal Officer and others). Being aggrieved against the order passed by the Superintending Canal Officer, the petitioners have filed these writ petitions. The primary contention raised by the petitioners is that Superintending Canal Officer has passed contradictory orders. After passing of the order by Divisional Canal Officer, alignment of the Khal was changed, against which the petitioners filed an appeal. Earlier the appeal was filed by the respondents herein. The appeal filed by the petitioners was dismissed, whereas the appeal filed by Civil Writ Petition No.2069 of 2009 : 2 : the respondents was allowed and the case was remanded. Since the issue involved related to the same watercourse, it would have been ideal for the Superintending Canal Officer to consider both the appeals together and pass orders to avoid contradiction. It would be appropriate, therefore, to remand the cases back to Superintending Canal Officer to re-consider the issue in the light of pleas raised by the respective parties and pass an appropriate order in accordance with law. The parties, through their counsel, are directed to appear before the Superintending Canal Officer on 5.9.2011, who shall afford an opportunity of hearing to them and pass a fresh order in accordance with law. The writ petitions are accordingly disposed of. August 19, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE