{"id":35524,"date":"2011-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lal-chand-vs-superintending-canal-officer-on-11-august-2011"},"modified":"2015-09-11T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T22:10:57","slug":"lal-chand-vs-superintending-canal-officer-on-11-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lal-chand-vs-superintending-canal-officer-on-11-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"Lal Chand vs Superintending Canal Officer on 11 August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Lal Chand vs Superintending Canal Officer on 11 August, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH\n\n                    CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.19410 OF 2009\n                    DATE OF DECISION: AUGUST 11, 2011\n\nLal Chand\n                                                             .....Petitioner\n\n                           VERSUS\n\nSuperintending Canal Officer, Canal Circle, Ferozepur and others\n                                                  ....Respondents\n\n\nCORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH\n\n1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement?\n2. To be referred to the Reporters or not?\n3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest?\n\n\n\n\nPRESENT:            Mr. B. S. Makkar, Advocate,\n                    for the petitioner.\n\n                    Mr. N.D.S.Mann, Addl.A.G., Punjab,\n                    for the State.\n\n                    Mr. S.P.S.Tinna, Advocate,\n                    for respondent No.4.\n\n                           ********\n\nRANJIT SINGH, J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>             Counsel for the petitioner has not been able to show as to<\/p>\n<p>how he would be affected by the change of nakka in this case,<\/p>\n<p>though he has made an attempt to show that the rain water overflows<\/p>\n<p>in the minor but there is no material placed on record to substantiate<\/p>\n<p>the same. I am, thus, not inclined to exercise writ jurisdiction merely<\/p>\n<p>to decide some academic questions.\n<\/p>\n<p>             Dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<pre>August 11, 2011                                        (RANJIT SINGH )\nkhurmi                                                     JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Lal Chand vs Superintending Canal Officer on 11 August, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.19410 OF 2009 DATE OF DECISION: AUGUST 11, 2011 Lal Chand &#8230;..Petitioner VERSUS Superintending Canal Officer, Canal Circle, Ferozepur and others &#8230;.Respondents CORAM:- HON&#8217;BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. 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