IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.15389 of 2010 Date of decision: 27.8.2010 Bhag Singh and others …..Petitioners versus The Land Acquisition Collector and another ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Augustine George Masih Present: Mr.Mahavir Sandhu, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) The petitioners are the proprietors / land owners in village Manakpur-Thakur Dass, tehsil Kalka district Panchkula. The State of Haryana acquired a vast track of land by issuing notifications under Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act), in the year 2003, including land, which was shown under the ownership of the Gram Panchayat in the revenue record. It is contention of counsel for the petitioners that as per ratio of a Full Bench judgment of this Court in Jai Singh v. State of Haryana and others, 2003 (2) RCR (Civil) 578, the proprietor and not the Gram Panchayat is owner of the land of the nature, which is in dispute in this case. It is an admitted fact that qua the acquired land, respondent No.1 pronounced award on 26.11.2009. It is case of the petitioners that thereafter, to claim the amount of compensation awarded, they had moved an application before respondent No.1 on 4.2.2010 (P3). In that application, it has specifically been mentioned that they are owners of the land, in dispute and amount of compensation be disbursed to them. It is grievance of Civil Writ Petition No.15389 of 2010 the petitioners that neither compensation amount has been paid to them nor respondent No.1 has referred their application for adjudication in terms of the provisions of Sections 18 and 30 of the Act, to the competent Court. Taking note of the above mentioned facts, we dispose of this writ petition and direct respondent No.1 to process application filed by the petitioners on 4.2.2010 (P3) and pass an appropriate order, as per provisions of the Act. Needful be done within two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 27.08.2010 (Augustine George Masih) gk Judge 2