IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 18037 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : 17.10.2008 Bag Ram and others .... PETITIONERS Versus Deputy Commissioner, Ferozepur and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Mr. C.M. Munjal, Advocate, for the petitioners. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioners, who are Panches of Gram Panchayat, Village Malookpur, Tehsil Abohar, District Ferozepur, have filed this petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for quashing the proceedings dated 27.7.2008, whereby Gurdeep Singh (respondent No.5 herein) was elected as Sarpanch of the Gram Panchayat. After arguing for some time, learned counsel for the petitioners states that in view of the disputed questions of fact involved in the petition and the fact that election of the Sarpanch has not been notified so far, as well as in view of decision of this Court in Baljit Singh v. State of Punjab and others (CWP No. 13643 of 2008, decided on August 22, 2008), the petitioners may be permitted to withdraw this writ petition with liberty to CWP No. 18037 of 2008 -2- avail the remedy of election petition under Section 76 read with Section 89 of the Punjab State Election Commission Act, 1994. Dismissed as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty. If the election petition is filed, the Election Tribunal is directed to decide the same, expeditiously. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE October 17, 2008 ( JASWANT SINGH ) ndj JUDGE