CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.2490 OF 2010 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: APRIL 05 ,2011 Dr.Ved Vrat Sharma .....Petitioner VERSUS Kurukshetra University, Kuru kshetra and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. Arvind Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Ajay Gupta, Advocate, for respondent Nos.1 and 2. Mr. G. S. Malik, Advocate, for respondent No.3. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner has challenged the order whereby respondent No.3 has been confirmed on the post of Profession (Guru Ravi Dass Chair) on the ground that the same has ceased to exist/abolished on 31.3.2002. The petitioner was appointed as Lecturer in Hindi Department on 8.9.1982. He was promoted as Reader on 16.9.1996 and appointed as Chairman of the Department on 27.7.1997. The petitioner is aggrieved against the action of the official respondents CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.2490 OF 2010 :{ 2 }: to allow respondent No.3 to work on the post of Professor, though the said post has ceased to exist. This arrangement has been done by temporarily transferring a post of Professor from the Department of Physics and later has been filled by appointing respondent No.3. The petitioner has raised a detailed grievance in the petition prior to filing the present petition. In the reply filed, it is disclosed that the petitioner had filed a civil suit, which was got dismissed as withdrawn. Through the civil suit, the petitioner had sought permanent injunction to restrain the respondent-University from converting the post of Professor Guru Ravi Dass Chair to the post of Professor in Hindi Department. On the basis of a stand taken in the written statement, the suit was withdrawn. The petitioner had filed another civil suit praying for decree of permanent injunction, which was also got dismissed as withdrawn. The petitioner had withdrawn the civil suit on a statement made by the respondents. Since he had earlier invoked the jurisdiction of Civil Court for the same or a similar cause, it would be appropriate to relegate the petitioner to invoke the alternative remedy of filing a civil suit, especially so when he is basing his claim on the order passed by Civil Court where some lis is still pending. The writ petition is accordingly disposed by relegating the petitioner to invoke the alternative remedy of filing civil suit. April 05,2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE