IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.8338 of 2010 Date of Decision : July 05, 2010. Parveen Gupta .....Petitioner versus Lok Adalat/Samjhauta Sadan, Panchkula and others ....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Aman Kashyap, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) This civil writ petition is directed against the order dated 4.1.2010 (Annexure P-7) passed by the Permanent Lok Adalat, Panchkula, whereby the petitioner's prayer for declaration and ownership in respect of various properties sought on the basis of alleged `family settlement', has been declined. After arguing the case for some time on merits, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in the event of disagreeing with the prayer made by the petitioner and the private respondents, the Permanent Lok Adalat ought to have transferred the matter to Civil Court for adjudication on merits. In my considered view, no occasion arose for the Permanent C.W.P.No .8338 of 2010 2 Lok Adalat to transfer the matter to the Civil Court as the petitioner had directly approached the Permanent Lok Adalat by moving an application under Section 19 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. However, the impugned order in no way precludes the petitioner or the private respondents to seek declaration of their respective tile qua the subject- properties from the Civil Court in accordance with law. With these observations, the writ petition is disposed of. July 05, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE