2025:HHC:30845 IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA CWP No. 13993 of 2025 Decided on : 09.09.2025 Hemant Kumar …Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh …Respondent Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge Whether approved for reporting?1 For the petitioner : Ms. Mamta, Advocate, vice Mr. Kuldeep Singh, Advocate. For the respondent : Mr. Pushpinder Jaswal, Additional Advocate General. Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge (Oral) Notice. Mr. Pushpinder Jaswal, learned Additional Advocate General, accepts notice on behalf of the respondent. 2. By way of this writ petition, the petitioner has made a prayer that the partition proceedings in case No. 16/2006, titled Sujata & Ors. Vs. Maya Devi & Ors., which are pending before Assistant Collector, 1st Grade-cum-Tehsildar, Shimla, Rural, be ordered to be decided expeditiously. 3. Learned Additional Advocate General submits that 1Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2 2025:HHC:30845 in case the proceedings are still pending with the Authority, then the same will be decided in accordance with law, as expeditiously as possible. 4. In the light of the statement made by learned Additional Advocate General, these proceedings are closed, with the observations that let the proceedings, if any, pending before the Assistant Collector, 1st Grade-cum-Tehsildar, Shimla, Rural, be completed, on or before 31.01.2026, of course, in accordance with law. Pending miscellaneous application(s), if any, also stand disposed of accordingly. (Ajay Mohan Goel) Judge September 09, 2025 (Shivank Thakur)