DARSHAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ petition is pending since 1986. While issuing notice of motion dispossession was stayed. Subsequently, the respondents were represented on several dates but no replies were filed. Finally the writ petition was admitted on March 25, 1987.

(2.) IN order to appreciate the facts, reference is being made to the plan Annexure P-1 filed with the writ petition. At point 'X' shown on the plan existed house of the petitioner, which was constructed in 1980 on a piece of land purchased in 1979 after taking necessary permissions from the authorities concerned. As alleged, the Improvement Trust formulates several schemes from time to time intending to acquire the land of the petitioner for the purpose of construction of a road. Such scheme was framed in 1977, thereafter in 1981 and finally in 1984. It was in 1986 when the petitioner received a notice that he approached the High Court.

(3.) COPY of the order be given to the counsel for the parties. Petition allowed.