M/S AP EARTHMOVERS AND ANR vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND ORS.

CWP-38903-2025 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 107 CWP-38903-2025 Date of Decision: 13.05.2026 M/s A.P. Earthmovers and another …Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE JAGMOHAN BANSAL Present: - Mr. A.P.S. Sandhu, Advocate for the petitioners Mr. Ishan Kaushal, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab Mr. Sanjeev Soni, Advocate for respondent Nos.3 and 4 *** JAGMOHAN BANSAL, J. (Oral) 1. The petitioners through instant petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India are seeking direction to the respondents to release payments with respect to services rendered by them. 2. As per petition, petitioner No.1 is claiming that it has supplied vehicles to Municipal Corporation, Amritsar (for short ‘Corporation’) for carrying out garbage collection work. Petitioner No.2 is claiming that it has supplied petrol/diesel to contractors who had carried out work of garbage collection for the Corporation. Both the parties are having independent cause of action still have been made party in one petition. 3. On being asked, learned counsel for the petitioners expressed his inability to dispute that there was no contract b