IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH COCP-556-1999 (O&M)

Date of decision: 17.02.2026 AMRITSAR VIKAS MANCH ..Petitioner Versus NK ARORA & ORS. ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SUDEEPTI SHARMA Present: Mr. S.S. Behl, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Raageshwari Sharma, Advocate Mrs. Uru Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Animesh Sharma, Addl. A.G, Punjab.

Mr. Sanjeev Soni, Advocate Mr. Sarthak Soni, Advocate for respondents No.2 and 3. Ms. Ekta Thakur, Advocate Ms. Pawandeep Kaur, Advocate for respondent No.5.

SUDEEPTI SHARMA , J. (Oral)

1. Ms. Ekta Thakur, Advocate has put in appearance on behalf of respondent No.5 and filed her vakalatnama, which is taken on record.

2. The contempt petition has been filed for deliberate and intentional disobedience of order dated 29.01.1998 passed in COCP-624-

1997, whereby, the following order was passed:-

“Civil Writ Petition 17984 of 1994 was disposed on 15-2- 1996 with a direction to the respondents therein to complete the acquisition proceed- ings by taking possession of the acquired land within six months from that date and thereafter proceed in accordance with the rules to implement to scheme within one year. It may be mentioned that the Improvement Trust framed a scheme shifting dairies from the city of Amritsar to new for the dairy complex for which the land had been acquired by the State Government. The Municipal Corporation has developed the land and auctioned the plots. The difficulty that is being experi- enced by the respondents in finally implementing the scheme is that the allottees are not shifting from the old sites to the new dairy complex. In of the written statement filed on behalf the respondents, it is stated that they have taken all possible steps within their means to comply with the directions and the District Administra- tion be directed to assist the authorities of the Municipal Corporation to evict the allottees from the old states. It is further stated that the dairy owners are not likely to shift on their own as they are offering resistance.

Having heard counsel for the parties and after going through the pleadings, I am satisfied means that the court directions have by and large been complied with by the respondents and that they have taken all possible steps within their means to comply with these directions. Since the dairy to the new complex, it is necessary that the Dis- trict Administration should help all possible assistance including police help to implement the scheme to that the dairies for them.

Consequently, of this petition is disposed with a direction to the District Administration to provide all assistance to the Municipal ties authori- including police help and ensure that all dairy owners shift to the new complex at the earliest but not later than June 30, 1998.

Copy of this order be sent to the Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar for necessary action and compliance.”

3. Learned counsel for respondents contends that in the year 2000, Dairy Welfare Union and other dairy owners have filed four different writ petitions bearing No.CWP-5334-2000 and other connected cases titled as “Dairy Welfare Union Vs. State of Punjab and others”, whereby, the following order was passed by the Division Bench of this Court:-

“1. This common order shall dispose of all the afore- mentioned petitions as the issue is similar in all these petitions. For the sake of brevity, facts are taken from CWP-5334-2000.

2. This petition has been filed by Dairy Welfare Union, which comprised of members who are dairy owners. Dairies of members of petitioner- Union were running within the walled city of Amritsar. The prayer in the petition was made to quash notices (Annexures P-12 and P-14) issued by the Municipal Corporation, Amritsar asking the dairies situtated within Amritsar to shift outside the municipal limits of Amritsar within 15 days, failing which the Corporation would be compelled to exercise permissible force with the aid of Police to evict the dairies.

3. Initially thi