IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 9669 of 1987 Date of Decision : September 15, 2010 Bharatiya Khadiya Nigam Karam Chari Sangh through Shri Diwakar Sharma, Regional Secretary, c/o Food Corporation of India, Jind Road, Kaithal. ...... Petitioner Versus. Food Corporation of India, through Senior Regional Manager (Haryana Region), SCO No. 120-122, Sector-17-C, Chandigarh, and another ..... Respondents CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MUKUL MUDGAL, CHIEF JUSTICE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY TEWARI Present:- Mr. Akshay Bhan, Advocate, for the petitioner. None for respondent No. 1. Mr. Randhir Singh, Addl. A.G. Haryana, for respondent No. 2. MUKUL MUDGAL, C.J. (ORAL). This writ petition had been filed in the year 1987 for quashing of the Notification dated 12.05.1987 (Annexure-P-2), whereby the Food Corporation of India was exempted in the State of Haryana from the operation of the provisions of Section 7 of the Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958, (in short ‘the Act’) (as applicable to Haryana) for a period of one year from the date of publication of this notification in the official Gazette, with a further prayer to quash letter dated 09.06.1987 (Annexure-P-3), written by the Food Corporation of India to the District Managers for implementing the Instructions dated 12.05.1987 strictly. No-one is present on behalf of respondent No. 1/Food Corporation of India. However, at the outset, Additional Advocate General, Haryana, states that the Notification dated 12.05.1987 (Annexure-P-2), exempting Food Corporation of India from the operation of the provisions of Section 7 of the Act, was in force only for a period of one year from the date of publication of this notification in the official Gazette and thereafter, the same had not been renewed nor re-issued. Therefore, the present writ petition, with the passage of time, has become infructuous. CWP No. 9669 of 1987 -2- Ld. counsel for the petitioner does not dispute the statement made by Additional Advocate General, Haryana. In view of the position aforesaid, we dispose of this writ petition by directing the respondents to make the payment, if any due, subsequent to the withdrawal of the said Notification, to the petitioner not later than eight weeks from the date of receipt of certified copy of this Order. There shall be no order as to costs. (MUKUL MUDGAL) CHIEF JUSTICE (AJAY TEWARI) JUDGE September 15, 2010. sjks.