IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.13138 of 2009 Date of decision: 09.04.2010 Manvinder Pal Singh ….Petitioner versus State of Haryana and others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ------ Present: Mr. Rajesh Bansal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Ravi Dutt Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for respondent No.1. Mr. Amit Sharma, Advocate, for respondents 2 to 4. ----- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest? ----- K.Kannan, J (Oral) 1. The counsel appearing for respondents 2 to 4 points out that the petitioner has an efficacious alternative remedy for redressal of his grievance by means of an appeal to the Chief Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, in terms of section 40(3) of the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961. The petitioner shall therefore prefer an appeal to the duly constituted authority and when it is presented, the authority shall consider exclusion of time for the period when the petitioner was prosecuting the case bona fide before this Court. The authority shall give adequate opportunity to the petitioner to make Civil Writ Petition No.13138 of 2009 - 2 - personal representation and take a decision within a period of 12 weeks from the date of the receipt of the copy of the order. 2. The writ petition is disposed of. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 09.04.2010 sanjeev