Jalandhar, April 26 -- The Kapurthala court has held the sale warrant issued for the auction of Kapurthala's Jagatjit Club, a 115-year-old Greco-Roman building, in abeyance till May 26.

The club's 13 kanal & 14 marla property had been attached in an ongoing case, an execution filed by a Phagwara resident Nirbhail Singh, seeking enhancement of compensation for his over 8 kanal property, which was acquired in 2002, for four-laning of the Ropar-Balachaur-Nawanshahr-Phagwara road. As per Nirbhail's appeal, a payment of Rs.1,42,19,304 is due towards him and others as compensation.

In its orders on April 2, the court of Harpal Singh, district and sessions judge, Kapurthala, had ordered auction of the club. As per the orders, the notice for th...