IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.8003 of 2011 Rupinder Chaudhary Vs. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.Chandigarh & others Present: Mr.Nitin Kant Setia, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner is an applicant for allotment of petrol pump in rural area (Hamara Pump). For this purpose, the petitioner took 3 Kanals 6 Marlas land on lease and offered to set up the pump on this site. On this basis, he was assessed in the criteria of capacity to provide land and infrastructure. The land taken on lease is from stranger. As per the petitioner, the land offered by him was to be considered under the head `own land', which carried 35 marks but his case has been considered under the head `firm offer', which carried maximum 25 marks. Terming this action to be bad, the petitioner has filed this petition to contend that he was wrongly denied 10 marks. How the evaluation is to be done as own land/firm offer, is provided in the guidelines for selection of retail outlets. Only the self owned land or land owned by self with other members of the family, self owned land with other owners, self owned land and the land of members of family unit with other owners, land only of members of family unit and owned by members of family unit with other owners are to be considered as `owned land'. Other lands, even self owned, are to be treated as a `firm offer'. The reference made by the petitioner to the documents required to be offered for a land can not be read to mean that the land, which is on lease with the petitioner, is to be treated as a self owned land. The land on lease can never be considered as a own land and evaluated as such. The action of the respondents is not wrong while evaluating the land of the petitioner as a `firm offer'. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed in limine. May 05, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE