157 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision : 04.12.2025 Kirpal Singh through his LRs and another ...... Petitioners Versus Financial Commissioner (Appeals), Punjab and others ...... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSH BUNGER Present :- Mr. Vishal Aggarwal, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Nirmaljit Singh Diwana, Senior DAG Punjab.

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HARSH BUNGER, J. (ORAL)

1. Prayer in the instant civil writ petition filed under Articles 226/227 of Constitution of India, inter alia, is for issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari for setting aside order dated 17.12.2020 (Annexure P-6) and also the sanad takseem (instrument of partition) dated 22.04.2021 (Annexure P-7), issued by Assistant Collector 1^st Grade, Narot Jaimal Singh (in short 'Assistant Collector').

1.1 A further prayer has been made for setting aside order dated 28.08.2025 (Annexure P-9), passed by learned Financial Commissioner (Appeals), Punjab (in short 'Financial Commissioner').

2. Briefly, respondent No. 2 (Ganesh Raj) sought partition of joint land, comprised in three khewats i.e. khewat No. 4/3 (measuring 60 Kanal - 13 Marla); khewat No. 6/3 (measuring 209 Kanal -17 Marla) and khe