On oral application, the Court disposed of the writ petition by directing respondent authorities to ascertain the petitioners claim for alternative housing under specific schemes within four months without expressing views on merits.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
Civil Writ Petition No.3361 of 2015 Date of Decision: February 25, 2015
Ram Acchal and others
......Petitioners
versus
Union of India and others
.....Respondents
CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAJ MOHAN SINGH.
Present: Mr.Johan Kumar, Advocate, for the petitioners.
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Surya Kant, J. (Oral)
The petitioners claim themselves to be residents of Gayakward Nagar, Near New Town Station, NIT, Faridabad, Haryana. They claim to be belonging to the poor strata of society who are living in slums from the last about 40 years. Their hutments, however, were demolished by the Railways authorities in the year 2013 as the land where Gayakward Nagar is located belongs to Railway Department. The petitioners now claim that since they are bonafide residents of the State of Haryana from the last about four decades and have been issued ration cards, voter cards, adhar cards etc. and since they are living below poverty line, they are entitled to allotment of alternative sites/residential units under the 'Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojana' and 'Indira Awas Yojna'. It is their further case that while claims of other similarly placed persons have been considered but the authorities have not paid any
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heed to the representations made by the petitioners seeking the aforesaid relief.
We find from the record that the petitioners have raised the above-stated claim vide representations dated 07.10.2013 and 25.07.2013 (Annexures P-1 & P-2), respectively. We thus disposed of this writ petition, without expressing any views on merits, with a direction to respondent Nos.3 & 4 to ascertain the above-mentioned claim of the petitioners and decide the same in accordance with law/Government Policy, as early as possible and preferably within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order.
Ordered accordingly.
Dasti.
February 25, 2014 [RAJ MOHAN SINGH] Mohinder JUDGE
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Ram Acchal
Union of India
Surya Kant
Raj Mohan Singh
As recorded by the court registry
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