IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.20192 of 2010 Date of decision: 12.11.2010 M/s Splender Landbase Limited …..Petitioner versus State of Haryana and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Augustine George Masih Present: Mr.Deepak Thapar, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) In this writ petition, it is grievance of the petitioner that its application, moved under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act) is not being referred to the competent Court for adjudication, by the Land Acquisition Collector. It appears that earlier also, the petitioner came to this Court by filing CWP No.17965 of 2009 and on 25.11.2009, the above said writ petition was disposed of by passing the following order:- “The petitioner has filed the instant writ petition for issuing direction to the Land Acquisition Collector to allow its application filed under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as `the Act') for referring the matter to the civil court for enhancement of compensation. The petitioner has filed this petition without first approaching the Land Acquisition Collector by making representation for early decision of its application. In view of this fact, this petition is disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to first make representation to the Land Acquisition Collector for sending the reference to the civil court under Section 18 of the Act. If no action is taken on the said Civil Writ Petition No.20192 of 2010 representation within a reasonable time, it will be open for the petitioner to approach this Court again.” Counsel for the petitioner states that thereafter, a representation was made on 4.1.2010. Even then, no action has been taken. In view of facts and circumstances of this case, the writ petition is disposed of and directions are issued to the Land Acquisition Collector, Rohtak (respondent No.3) to refer application of the petitioner (if any), for adjudication to the competent Court forthwith. Needful be done within two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If no application has been moved or there is any other hitch in not referring the application to the competent Court, the Land Acquisition Collector shall pass an order and supply a copy of the same to the petitioner. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 12.11.2010 (Augustine George Masih) gk Judge 2