Civil Writ Petition No. 5127 OF 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 5127 OF 2010 Date of decision:8th November, 2010 Harbans son of Sohna Ram resident of Ward No. 2, Village and Post Office Bhuna District Fatehabad. .......Appellant Versus State of Haryana and others ........Respondents BEFORE: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN Present: Mr. N.S.Shekhawat, Advocate, for the appellant. Mr. Kunal Garg, AAG, Haryana, for respondent Nos. 1 to 3. None for respondent Nos. 4 and 5. 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes/No 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not?Yes/No 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Yes/No K.Kannan, J.(Oral) In the writ petition the challenge is to the election of the respondents as office bearers in the Panchayat Samiti. The period of election of the office bearers enured till March 2010. It is an admitted fact that the respondents have served out their term of office. A fresh election was conducted and a fresh body of office bearers have also taken charge. The prayer in the writ petition is to quash the election that had taken place for the Panchayat Samiti. Since the period of Civil Writ Petition No. 5127 OF 2010 2 office itself has expired, the writ petition has become infructuous. The prayer sought for in the writ petition cannot any longer have meaning. Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed as such without expressely finding in any way the validity or otherwise of their continuance in office till the period actually expired. [K.KANNAN] JUDGE 8th November, 2010 Shivani Kaushik