Civil Writ Petition No. 10187 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- Civil Writ Petition No. 10187 of 2008 Date of decision: 06.05.2009 J S Walia ........Petitioner Versus Central Administrative Tribunal and others .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashutosh Mohunta Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: Mr. Rajeev Godara, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. Sanjay Goyal, Advocate for the respondents -.- Ashutosh Mohunta , J. (Oral) The petitioner has prayed for quashing of the order dated 03.10.2007 (Annexure P-13) passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench (Circuit at Shimla), in OA No. 142/HP/2006. Notice of motion was issued. Thereafter, a short reply had been filed on behalf of the respondents, wherein, a preliminary objection has been raised that a similar case i.e. Union of India and Others v Suresh Kumar and another (CWP No. 19743 of 2002) was filed before this Court against the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench (Circuit Bench at Shimla). The aforesaid case was decided by the Circuit Bench at Shimla. This Court vide order dated 18.11.2003, had ordered the return of the writ petition to the petitioner, for presentation in an appropriate Court. The order passed by this Court in the aforesaid writ Civil Writ Petition No. 10187 of 2008 2 petition, is reproduced hereunder:- “Present: Mr. Sanjay Goyal, Advocate CGSAC, for petitioners Mr. B B Sharma, advocate and Mr. M M Vats, Advocates, for respondent No. 1 -.- We are of the considered opinion that this writ petition would have to be returned to the petitioners to be presented in the court of appropriate jurisdiction i.e. High Court of Himachal Pradesh. Office is directed to return the petition to the petitioner for presentation in the appropriate Court. Sd/- S S Nijjar,J Sd/-S S Grewal,J November 18, 2003” As the present case has also been decided by the Central Administrative Tribunal Chandigarh Bench (Circuit at Shimla), therefore, we deem it proper to order that the writ petition be returned to the petitioner for presentation before the High Court of Himachal Pradesh, which is an appropriate Court having jurisdiction in the matter. The present writ petition stands disposed of accordingly. [Ashutosh Mohunta] Judge [Nirmaljit Kaur] Judge May 06, 2009 mohan