IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.820 of 1989 Date of decision:12.05.2010 Jai Singh and others ….Petitioners versus Chief Canal Officer, Haryana State, 30-Bays Building, Sector 17, Chandigarh and others. …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ------ Present: None for the petitioners. Mr. Ravi Dutt Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for respondents 1 to 3. None for respondent No.4. ----- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest? ----- K.Kannan, J (Oral) 1. On 24.07.1989, a Division Bench of this Court directed the matter to be taken up along with LPA No.1164 of 1988. On the same day, an interim order, which had been passed, was also vacated by the Court. The case is of the year, 1989 and it is not possible to ascertain the status of the decision in LPA No.1164 of 1988. 2. There is no representation for the petitioners and the counsel for the State Mr.Ravi Dutt Sharma is present and I proceed to dispose of the case with the records and with his assistance. Civil Writ Petition No.820 of 1989 - 2 - 3. The matters in challenge are the orders passed in the year 1988 by the Divisional Canal Officer and the higher officials in the hierarchy shifting the course of the canal and drainage water. The shifting of the outlet which had been originally stayed was vacated by the order of the Court on 24.07.1989 After 21 years, after the order was vacated, there cannot be any subsisting interest for any person to complain of. The writ petition is, under the circumstances, dismissed as having become infructuous. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 12.05.2010 sanjeev