CWP No.18008 of 2008 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.18008 of 2008 Date of Decision: 22.10.2008 Kamaljit Singh and others ..Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE T.S.THAKUR,CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH 1.Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present : Mr. Rajinder Goyal, Advocate for the petitioners ***** T.S.Thakur, C.J. (Oral) Issue notice of motion to respondents No.3 and 4 only. On our direction, Mr. Amit Goel, Advocate accepts notice for Mr. Rupinder Khosla, counsel for GMADA-respondent No.3 while Mr. APS Man, Advocate accepts notice for respondent No.4-Municipal Council, SAS Nagar, Mohali. Notices to the remaining respondents are, in our opinion, unnecessary and are accordingly dispensed with. This petition filed in public interest prays for a mandamus directing the respondents to take immediate and effective remedial steps to control the storm/sewerage water that enters the houses of the petitioners during rainy season and plays havoc with their property and brings untold misery for them. CWP No.18008 of 2008 [2] Appearing for the petitioner, Mr. Goyal strenuously argued that both respondents No. 3 and 4 have failed to take any action in the matter to deal with the problem of storm/sewerage water which is entering their houses during rainy season every year. Representations made by the petitioners to the authorities drawing their attention to the seriousness of the problem had not according to the petitioners yielded any fruit thereby forcing them to approach this Court for redress. Mr. Goel has also drawn our attention to an order passed by this Court in similar circumstances in Civil Writ Petition No.12285 of 2002 finally disposed of vide order dated 26.2.2005. That was also a case where the petitioners had complained of flood water entering their houses, damaging their property and making their lives difficult. This Court had according to learned counsel for the petitioners intervened to direct the authorities to look into the matter and take appropriate steps. There was according to him no reason why a similar order cannot be made in the present writ petition also and both respondents No.3 and 4 i.e. GMADA and Municipal Council, SAS Nagar, Mohali directed to take appropriate steps in the matter after studying the problem. M/S Amit Goel and APS Mann submit that given reasonable time, the authorities would properly investigate the entire problem and take appropriate remedial measures considered feasible in the circumstances. That being so, we see no reason why we should keep this petition pending on our Board. Proper course appears to be to dispose of the writ petition with the direction that respondents No.3 and 4 shall look into the problems pointed out by the petitioners and take appropriate and remedial measures to prevent any inconvenience to the residents of the area or damage to their properties by storm/sewerage water entering their houses CWP No.18008 of 2008 [3] during rainy season or otherwise. Needful shall be done by respondents No.3 and 4 expeditiously but not later than six months from today. The writ petition is accordingly disposed off with the above direction leaving the parties to bear their own costs. (T.S.THAKUR) CHIEF JUSTICE (JASBIR SINGH) 22.10.2008 JUDGE 'ravinder'