IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.9441 of 2010 Date of decision: 26.05.2011 Pargat Singh and others …..Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.S.S.Tiwana, Advocate for the petitioners Mr.Manohar Lall, Addl.A.G. Punjab Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) In this writ petition vires of Section 42-A of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 (in short, the Act) are under challenge. The said provision was brought into the Statute vide Punjab Act No.6 of 2007. Besides as above, the petitioners have also laid challenge to an order dated 14.11.2007 (P4). In the Index of the writ petition, to claim relief, reliance was placed upon pendency of CWP No.5826 of 2008. In view of an order dated 20.5.2011, passed by a Division Bench of this Court in CWP No.15509 of 2007 titled as Mahatam Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others, challenge to the vires of Section 42-A of the Act no longer survives. Vide that judgment, a bunch of writ petitions, including CWP No.5826 of 2008 was dismissed. Civil Writ Petition No.9441 of 2010 In view of above, this writ petition is dismissed in terms of an order passed by this Court in the case of Mahatam Singh (supra). (Jasbir Singh) Judge 26.05.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge 2