{"id":170514,"date":"2011-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/brij-lal-vs-state-of-punjab-others-on-24-august-2011"},"modified":"2015-07-20T04:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T23:18:16","slug":"brij-lal-vs-state-of-punjab-others-on-24-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/brij-lal-vs-state-of-punjab-others-on-24-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"Brij Lal vs State Of Punjab &amp; Others on 24 August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Brij Lal vs State Of Punjab &amp; Others on 24 August, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>      IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                    CHANDIGARH\n\n                         Civil Writ Petition No.15578 of 2011\n                         Date of Decision: August 24, 2011\n\nBrij Lal\n                                                         ...Petitioner\n\n                                 Versus\n\nState of Punjab &amp; others\n                                                         ...Respondents\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH\n\n1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment?\n2. To be referred to the Reporters or not?\n3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest?\n\nPresent:    Mr.Anureet S. Sidhu, Advocate,\n            for the petitioner.\n\n                         *****\n\nRANJIT SINGH, J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>            The petitioner has filed this writ petition seeking direction<br \/>\nin the nature of mandamus for the respondents to take action on the<br \/>\napplication filed by the petitioner in accordance with law to get the<br \/>\nillegal occupation of the ponds of the petitioner&#8217;s village removed.<br \/>\nThe petitioner has also prayed for compensation as collection of<br \/>\nwater has caused damage to his house.\n<\/p>\n<p>            In my considered opinion, writ is not an appropriate<br \/>\nremedy either to consider awarding of damages or go into disputed<br \/>\nfact whether any pond has been illegally encroached or if any<br \/>\nencroachment is required to be removed from any pond. This factual<br \/>\ncontroversy can more appropriately be decided in some alternative<br \/>\nproceedings, for which the petitioner may have his remedy. No case<br \/>\nfor interference in exercise of writ jurisdiction is made out.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<pre>August 24, 2011                                   ( RANJIT SINGH )\nramesh                                                 JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Brij Lal vs State Of Punjab &amp; Others on 24 August, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.15578 of 2011 Date of Decision: August 24, 2011 Brij Lal &#8230;Petitioner Versus State of Punjab &amp; others &#8230;Respondents CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. 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