IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.7303 of 2011 Rajinder Lal Vs. HMT Limited, Bellary Road, Bangalore and others Present: Mr.Ashok Sharma Nabhewala, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The gratuity has been paid to the petitioner after making deduction of sum of ` 1,45,126/-. The petitioner is aggrieved against this deduction. This court while issuing direction for payment of gratuity to the petitioner, clearly observed that the same be released after deducting what was legally deductible. The amount of gratuity has been released to the petitioner after deduction when he approached this court with a contempt petition. Even the contempt court has given liberty to the petitioner to challenge the deduction and had discharged the contempt notice, which was issued. Now the petitioner has filed this writ petition to challenge the deduction made. It would be appropriate for him to have his alternative remedy of filing a civil suit where these issues whether this amount is deductible or not or has been rightly deducted or not can appropriately be gone into. The writ court does not appear to be appropriate forum for this purpose. Accordingly, the petitioner is relegated to his remedy of filing a civil suit for the same cause. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. April 27, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE