JAGDISH KUMAR SON OF SH CHAMAN LAL SINCE DECEASED THROUGH HIS LEGAL HEIR JAGAT PARKASH vs UNION OF INDIA THROUGH SECRETARY

CWP-13846-2026 (O & M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 114 CWP-13846-2026 (O & M) Date of decision:27.05.2026 JAGDISH KUMAR (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LEGAL HEIR & ORS. ...PETITIONERS VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ORS. ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUVIR SEHGAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI Present: Mr. Deepak Kumar Mehta, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Akash Vashisth, Advocate, for respondents No.1 and 2. *** SUVIR SEHGAL, J. 1. Petitioners have approached this Court, inter alia, for issuance of a writ of certiorari for quashing of action of respondents, whereby their shops were demolished and for a mandamus granting permission to reconstruct the shops. Petitioners have also sought damages as well as rehabilitation benefits. 2. Counsel for the petitioners has been heard. 3. At the outset, it emerges from the pleadings and documents appended with the petition that present petition arises out of the same cause of action, namely, demolition of shops on 28.05.2001, which was subject matter of CWP-8647-2001 titled as Gurbax Singh and others versus Union SHEETAL 2026.06.01 11:01 of India and others. Petitioners have disclosed that earlier writ petit