NIRPALJEET KAUR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioners are resident of Shaheed Sewa Singh Thikriwala Nagar, Patiala and had approached this Court in purported public interest vide this petition. They had, inter alia, prayed for a writ of mandamus directing the official respondents to stop the commercial activity being carried out at the instance of respondent No.6 in the residential area (Shaheed Sewa Singh Thikriwala Nagar, Patiala) and to remove illegal encroachments/violations. A direction was also prayed for against the respondents to stop the functioning of the College i.e. Sri Guru Harkrishan College of Management and Technology and also a High School, which was being run in the middle of residential colony, over a site which was indeed allotted to set up a Primary School.

(2.) PURSUANT to the notice issued by this Court, the respondents filed their counter -affidavits/written statements respectively, which, we would refer to and deal with at an appropriate stage in the judgment.

(3.) SINCE the instant writ petition was filed in the year 2008 and was monitored by this Court for almost six years, in the interregnum, there have been multiple developments pursuant to certain orders/directions issued by this Court from time to time. However, we need not dilate upon those, in context of the questions which have eventually evolved for determination by this Court. So we proceed.