IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 18577 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : 30.10.2008 Jaswinder Singh .... PETITIONER Versus State of Punjab and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Mr. C.B. Goel, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner, who is one of the elected Councilors of Municipal Council, Urmar Tanda, District Hoshiarpur, has filed this petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for quashing the proceedings of the meeting dated 25.7.2008, in which respondents No.6 and 7 have been declared elected as President and Vice President of the Municipal Council. Undisputedly, after the elections, first meeting of the Municipal Councilors was called on 22.7.2008, under the orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur, for the purpose of administering oath and holding elections of President and Vice President of the Municipal Council. Municipal Council, Urmur Tanda, consists of 13 Councilors. The said CWP No. 18577 of 2008 -2- meeting was attended by 6 Councilors and after administering oath to them, the meeting was adjourned due to lack of quorum. The second meeting was convened on 25.7.2008 under the orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur, which was attended by 12 Councilors. The case of the petitioner is that no notice was served upon him for the said meeting. This is disputed question of fact, which cannot be gone into in writ jurisdiction. However, the petitioner has an alternative remedy to question the election of respondents No.6 and 7 by filing election petition. Since this petition has been filed much after the expiry of limitation for filing the election petition, therefore, we are not inclined to entertain this petition. Even otherwise, we do not find any illegality in adjourning the first meeting for want of quorum and the proceeding of meeting held on 25.7.2008, which was attended by 12 Municipal Councilors, in which respondents No.6 and 7 were duly elected as President and Vice President. Dismissed. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE October 30, 2008 ( JASWANT SINGH ) ndj JUDGE