Civil Writ Petition No. 2585 of 2007 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 2585 of 2007 Date of Order: 08.07.2010 Gurudwara Sahib Akalian ....Petitioner Versus Director, Land Records, Punjab and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIVE BHALLA Present: Mr.S.S.Salar,Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. C.S.Brar, DAG, Punjab for respondent no.1. Mr. Jatinder Singla, Advocate for respondents No.5 to 8 RAJIVE BHALLA, J (Oral). The dispute in the present case, arises from an order dated 13.09.2006, whereby the Director, Land Records, Punjab, Chandigarh, has rejected the petitioner's prayer for providing a path to its land. Counsel for the petitioner submits that admittedly the petitioner was not provided a path during consolidation. The petitioner's prayer for providing a path was rejected on the ground that a passage has already been provided to the petitioner. It is submitted that a perusal of the site plans Annexure P-2 and R-1 clearly reveals that no path has been provided to the land belonging to the petitioner. Civil Writ Petition No. 2585 of 2007 -2- Counsel for the private respondents submits that he has no objection, if the petitioner is provided a path but the path to be provided should not bifurcate their land. It is submitted that a path can be easily provided to the petitioner by extending path no.2811 through Shamilat Deh or by extending path no.2785 through the land of Satnam Singh etc. I have heard counsel for the parties and perused the impugned order. The petitioner prayer for providing of a path has been rejected on the ground that it has already been provided with the path from the main road. This finding is factually incorrect. As a consequence, the order dated 13.09.2006 is set aside, the matter is remitted to the Director, Land Records, Punjab, to decide the petition filed under Section 42 of the Act for providing a path to the petitioner afresh and in accordance with law. Before providing any path to the petitioner, the Director Land Records shall serve a notice upon all the parties likely to be affected by such a path. Parties are directed to appear before the Director, Land Records, Punjab, on 25.08.2010. The Director, Land Records, Punjab, shall decide the case within six months. July 08, 2010 (RAJIVE BHALLA) nt JUDGE