M/S Sunil Kumar Contractor v. State of Punjab and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
CWP-19806-2025, High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh, decided 02.09.2025 by Justice Suvir Sehgal (oral order). Petitioner M/S Sunil Kumar Contractor v. State of Punjab and others. Subject: release of final payment of Rs.12,12,825/- found due to the contractor following his legal notice dated 14.05.2025, payable out of funds of the Punjab Mandi Board; Memo No.1279 dated 22.08.2025 produced by State counsel (Assistant Advocate General Siddharth Sandhu) on instructions of Executive Engineer Pardeep Kumar, PWD (B&R), Ludhiana; amount to be released within eight weeks; petitioner's counsel (Ankur Gupta) satisfied; writ petition disposed of. No statutes or case law cited; no impugned order adjudicated.
What did the court decide?
State counsel, on instructions from the Executive Engineer, undertook before the Court that the final payment of Rs.12,12,825/- due to the petitioner shall be released within eight weeks; the writ petition was disposed of on that basis with the petitioner's counsel expressing satisfaction.