{"id":88631,"date":"2009-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ms-garga-associates-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-31-july-2009-2"},"modified":"2015-09-28T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:14:35","slug":"ms-garga-associates-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-31-july-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ms-garga-associates-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-31-july-2009-2","title":{"rendered":"M\/S Garga Associates vs State Of Punjab And Others on 31 July, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">M\/S Garga Associates vs State Of Punjab And Others on 31 July, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>            IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n\n                               CHANDIGARH\n\n\n                                     Civil Writ Petition No.11413 of 2009\n                                            Date of Decision: 31.07.2009\n\n\n\nM\/s Garga Associates\n                                                                   Petitioner\n                                  Versus\nState of Punjab and others\n                                                                Respondents\n\n\n\nCORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH\n\nPresent:    Mr.P.S.Rana, 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.Manohar Lall, 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>it towards execution of work against work order Nos.001, 002 and 50 all<\/p>\n<p>dated 20.2.2009.\n<\/p>\n<p>            It is case of the petitioner that it has successfully executed the<\/p>\n<p>work, as mentioned above. Entries were made in the measurement book and<\/p>\n<p>even amount due to it was approved by the authorities, however, the<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Officer has not released the payment on account of paucity of<\/p>\n<p>funds.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\"> Civil Writ Petition No.11413 of 2009                                       2<\/span><\/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 it.<\/p>\n<p>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 the respondents to release admitted payment to<\/p>\n<p>the petitioner, if there is no legal hitch, within two months from the date of<\/p>\n<p>receipt of a copy of this order, failing which, the petitioner shall be entitled<\/p>\n<p>to get interest @ 8% per annum from the date the amount had become due<\/p>\n<p>to the petitioner till its realisation. To the contrary, if respondents wish to<\/p>\n<p>reject claim of the petitioner on valid grounds, a speaking order be passed<\/p>\n<p>and a copy thereof be supplied to the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>             Mr.Manohar Lall, Additional Advocate General, Punjab<\/p>\n<p>assures that the requisite payment shall be made to the petitioner, as early as<\/p>\n<p>possible.\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>31.07.2009                                   (Jasbir Singh)\ngk                                               Judge\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court M\/S Garga Associates vs State Of Punjab And Others on 31 July, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11413 of 2009 Date of Decision: 31.07.2009 M\/s Garga Associates Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others Respondents CORAM:- HON&#8217;BLE MR. 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