Civil Writ Petition No. 16236 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 16236 of 2009 Date of decision : 30.03.2010 Gram Panchayat, Sattowal and others ....Petitioners V/s State of Punjab and others ....Respondents BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. M.S. Chicha, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. J.S. Puri, Additional Advocate General, Punjab for respondents No. 1 & 2. Mr. S.K. Wadhawan, Advocate for respondents No. 4 & 5. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) Learned State counsel submits that prayer made in the present petition has been rendered infructuous in view of the fact that total amount of Rs. 1,37,00,000/- has been released to 24 Gram Panchayats including the present petitioners (Gram Panchayats Sattowal, Jamalpur & Muchal).He has referred to affidavit filed by Kahan Singh Pannu, Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar in this regard. Paras 2 and 3 whereof read as under:- “2. That, now the total amount of Rs. 1,37,00,000/- has been released to 24 Gram Panchayats including the present petitioners, through cheques, as per the detail of grants mentioned in Annexure- A attached herewith. 3. That as such, now there is left no claim or grievance of the petitioners against the respondent/deponent and the writ petition filed by the petitioners has become infructuous. Learned counsel for the petitioner does not dispute the factual Civil Writ Petition No. 16236 of 2009 2 submission aforesaid. In view of the above, this petition is dismissed as having been rendered infructuous. March 30, 2010 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE