CWP No.628 of 2000. 6.5.2008 Present : Mr.D.Dadhwal, counsel for the petitioner. M/s.R.M. Bisht & Rajesh Mandhotra, Dy.A.Gs. for the Respondent No.1. Mr.Shrawan Dogra, counsel for respondent No.2. The petitioner by means of this writ petition has prayed for the grant of following amongst other reliefs: (i)A writ in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned judgment order Annexure P-4 passed by the Hon’ble Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, dated 22.3.2000, in OA No.211 of 1990 (Dr.Subhash Chander Negi vs. State of Himachal Pradesh and another) may kindly be issued; and (ii)A writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents that the proceedings of the Departmental Selection Committee dated 9.8.1989 whereby the petitioner was recommended for promotion and was promoted on that basis to the post of Associate Professor w.e.f. 1988 be restored, may also be issued; and (iii)Any other writ, order or direction deemed just and proper by this Hon’ble Court in the light of facts and circumstances of the case mentioned hereinabove may also be passed in favour of the petitioner and against the respondents. (iv)Directing respondent No.1 to send respondent No.2 back to his parent cadre i.e. the H.P. Health Services as G.D.O.-II against which post he was recruited as was done in the case of Dr.Bharat Bhushan Sharma in T.A. No.267 of 1986 which decision was upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court.” Basically the petitioner was aggrieved by the order of the H.P. State Administrative Tribunal passed in O.A. No.211 of 1990 whereby the respondent-State was directed to reconvene the DPC for the post of Assistant Professor by holding review DPC and consider only two persons in the review DPC who were eligible on 9.8.1989. Vide interim order dated 8th January, 2003 it was found that there must be one Professor to head the Department of Surgery in Indira Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Shimla and it was ordered that the senior most Professor in the Department may be designated as Head of the Department. Thereafter, a detailed order was passed on 2nd June, 2003 and the judgment of the learned Tribunal was set-aside and the appointment of the present petitioner as Associate Professor was upheld. A review petition was filed by respondent No.2 herein which was allowed. The main dispute between the petitioner and respondent No.2 was that who should be the Head of Department in the Department of Surgery. All other disputes were only ancillary to the main dispute . It would be pertinent to mention that both the petitioner and respondent No.2 have since retired. Both of them in turns have been designated as Head of Department in the Department of Surgery, IGMC, Shimla. Nothing survives in the writ petition. As such the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. (Deepak Gupta), Judge. May 6, 2008 ( Kuldip Singh ) PV Judge.