JUDGMENT

A.B. Chaudhari, J. - By way of this common order, above said all four writ petitions are being disposed of.

2. In these civil writ petitions, the challenge is to the actions of the respondents-Government and the Director-cum-Special Secretary, Government of Punjab, Department of Rural Development and Panchayats, Punjab in either forming new Gram Panchayats or de-notifying/bifurcating new Gram Panchayat in exercise of power under Section 3 of the Punjab Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 (for short 'Act of 1994').

FACTS

3. The necessary facts in individual writ petitions are stated as under:-

CWP No.21715 of 2018

(a) Gram Panchayat, Village Valtoha, Sandhuan, District Tarn Taran has been ordered to be divided by creation of Gram Panchayat of village Adda Valtoha in addition by issuing notification dated 31.07.2018 (Annexure P-13) in exercise of power under Section 3 of the Act of 1994. In brief, the petitioner in this writ petition has averred that the Panchayat Secretary Shri Satnam Singh, custodian of the record of Gram Panchayt Valtoha Sandhuan mislead some of the members of the Gram Panchayat including the petitioner-Sarpanch and obtained their signatures telling them that the che