{"id":72648,"date":"2009-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lal-chand-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-28-august-2009"},"modified":"2015-03-30T02:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:37:30","slug":"lal-chand-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-28-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lal-chand-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-28-august-2009","title":{"rendered":"Lal Chand vs The State Of Punjab And Others on 28 August, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Lal Chand vs The State Of Punjab And Others on 28 August, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>             IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n\n                               CHANDIGARH\n\n\n                                      Civil Writ Petition No.13270 of 2009\n                                             Date of Decision: 28.08.2009\n\n\nLal Chand\n                                                                  Petitioner\n                                   Versus\n\nThe State of Punjab and others\n\n                                                               Respondents\n\n\n\nCORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH\n\nPresent:    Mr.Rajesh Kumar Girdhar, Advocate for the petitioner\n\n                         .....\n<\/pre>\n<p>Jasbir Singh, J.(Oral)<\/p>\n<p>            Notice of motion.\n<\/p>\n<p>            On asking of the Court, Mr.A.K.Sharma, Additional Advocate<\/p>\n<p>General, Punjab accepts notice.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Heard.\n<\/p>\n<p>            By filing this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed that<\/p>\n<p>directions be issued to the respondents, to release admitted payment, due to<\/p>\n<p>him towards execution of work, allotted to him, detail of which has been<\/p>\n<p>given in paragraph No.2 of the writ petition.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\"> Civil Writ Petition No.13270 of 2009                                      2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>             It is case of the petitioner that he has successfully executed the<\/p>\n<p>work, as mentioned above. Entries were made in the measurement book and<\/p>\n<p>amount due to him was approved by the authorities, however, the payment<\/p>\n<p>has not been released on account of paucity of funds. Thereafter, the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner has sent a representation dated 17.7.2009 (P2) for releasing the<\/p>\n<p>payment, which is still pending undecided.\n<\/p>\n<p>             This Court feels that if there is no defect in the work executed<\/p>\n<p>by the petitioner, the authorities are not justified to detain amount due to<\/p>\n<p>him. Paucity of funds is no ground to deny the admitted payment.<\/p>\n<p>             In view of facts mentioned above, this writ petition is disposed<\/p>\n<p>of by issuing directions to respondent No.3 to decide representation of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner and if there is no legal hitch, release admitted payment to the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner, within three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this<\/p>\n<p>order, failing which, the petitioner shall be entitled to get interest @ 8% per<\/p>\n<p>annum from the date the amount had become due to him till its realisation.<\/p>\n<p>To the contrary, if the officer concerned wishes to reject claim of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner, on valid grounds, a speaking order be passed and a copy thereof<\/p>\n<p>be supplied to him.\n<\/p>\n<p>             Copy of the order be supplied to the State counsel under<\/p>\n<p>signatures of the Court Reader for compliance.<\/p>\n<pre>28.08.2009                                   (Jasbir Singh)\ngk                                               Judge\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Lal Chand vs The State Of Punjab And Others on 28 August, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.13270 of 2009 Date of Decision: 28.08.2009 Lal Chand Petitioner Versus The State of Punjab and others Respondents CORAM:- HON&#8217;BLE MR. 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