Civil Writ Petition No. 10901 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 10901 of 2009 Date of decision : 21.04.2010 Gram Panchayat of Village Sofi Pind, District Jalandhar ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab and others ....Respondents BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Krishan Sehajpal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Puri, Additional Advocate General, Punjab. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) The only grievance of the petitioner in the instant writ petition is that funds meant for the development works of Gram Panchayat Village Sofi Pind had not been spend by Executive Agency (respondent No. 4 herein). An affidavit of Bhagwan Singh, Block Development and Panchayat Officer, Jalandhar East has been filed in court today. The same is taken on record. Learned State counsel has referred to the said affidavit and submitted that Executive Officer, Panchayat Samiti, Jalandhar East was appointed as Executive Agency to spend Rs. 6.00 lacs for development works of the village. Out of the said amount, Rs. 5,37,300/- was spent on development works and proper account was maintained under the Rules. The Executive Agency has now been changed from Panchayat Samiti, Jalandhar East to Gram Panchayat, Sofi Pind (petitioner herein). He further Civil Writ Petition No. 10901 of 2009 2 submits that balance amount of Rs. 62,700/- has been returned to the Gram Panchayat and receipt to that effect is Annexure R-2. In view of the above, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he may be allowed to withdraw the present petition with liberty to the petitioner to approach the court afresh in case still aggrieved. Dismissed as withdrawn with liberty as aforesaid. April 21, 2010 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE