IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 4970 OF 2008 DATE OF DECISION : September 10, 2009. Parties Name Devinder Kumar ...PETITIONER VERSUS State of Punjab and others ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH PRESENT: Mr. Gurinderjit Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Anil Sharma, Addl. A.G., Punjab; Mr. Jaspreet Singh, Advocate, for respondents No. 4 and 6. Mr. Vipin Mahajan, Advocate, for respondent No. 5. JASBIR SINGH, J. (oral) ORDER: This writ petition has been filed with a prayer to quash order dated February 29, 2008 (P-8) , passed by respondent No. 4, ordering that the work left incomplete by the petitioner be got completed through some other contractor. It is further grievance of the petitioner that payment for other completed contracts has not been made to the petitioner, detail of which has been given in para No. 2 of the writ petition. Upon notice, replies- one by respondents No. 1 to 3 and another by respondents No. 4 and 6- have been filed. In para No. 2 of the reply, CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 4970 OF 2008 -2- filed by respondents No. 4 and 6, it has been pleaded as under: “That in reply to para No. 2 , it is pertinent to mention here that as per the provisions, the tenders for the works are to be accepted after the signatures of the President of Nagar Panchayat., However, as per the version of the President of Nagar Panchayat Mahilpur his signatures on the tenders were forged so a case u/S 419 , 420/120-B IPC, bearing FIR No. 242, dt. 4.12.2007 was registered at Police Station Mahilpur against the then Sectional Officer and others. The case stand registered at Police Station Mahilpur. And the matter is still to be decided by the Court as to whether the signatures of the President are forged or genuine one, so the amount of payment is subject to the decision of the Court who will decide the criminal case. It is pertinent to mention here that the original records relating to the above said tenders of which the petitioner is claiming payment has been taken into custody by the police of P.S. Mahilpur in the above noted FIR. However, if the Court will hold that the signatures of the President of Nagar Panchayat Mahilpur are genuine one then the payment will be made to petitioner.” In view of above said fact, it is not possible for this Court to decide the dispute in this writ petition. The petitioner may, if so advised, avail any other remedy. Dismissed. ( Jasbir Singh ) Judge September 10, 2009. DKC