C.W.P. No.7589 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No.7589 of 2010 Date of Decision.28.04.2010 Housing Board Haryana, through its Secretary, Awas Bhawan, Sector- 6, Panchkula ........Petitioner Versus Neelam Yadav and another ...Respondents Present: Mr. Ashwani Talwar, Advocate for the petitioner. CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not ? No 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? No -.- K. KANNAN J.(ORAL) 1. The challenge by the petitioner is to a direction by the Permanent Lok Adalt for release of Rs.13,500/-, which was held back by the petitioner when a claim for allotment was rejected. The rejection by the Housing Board was on the basis that the petitioner did not fall within the eligible category and therefore, an allotment could not be done and the amount which was paid as earnest was refunded less 10%. The Permanent Lok Adalat had observed that if he was not eligible, he should have been refunded with the entire amount and therefore, directed Rs.13,500/- to be also paid back to the claimant. The Permanent Lok Adalat did what it thought was just under the circumstances and it was not laying down any law when it had directed the refund of the amount. The amount which C.W.P. No.7589 of 2010 -2- the Housing Board was to refund to a private individual, who was not favoured with an allotment was a paltry amount of Rs.13,500/- and the payment of same cannot be a matter of challenge before this Court by unnecessarily dragging the private respondents to come to this Court for contest. 2. The writ petition is dismissed. There shall be, however, no direction as to costs. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE April 28, 2010 Pankaj*