IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1582 of 2011 Date of Decision : January 28, 2011. The Jamsher Cooperative Agricultural Multipurpose Service Society Ltd. .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.M.S.Kang, 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) The petitioner is a Cooperative Agricultural Multipurpose Service Society. It seeks a mandamus to direct the State of Punjab and its police authorities to vacate the office building of the petitioner-Society which was earlier being used as police post since the year 1984 and now has been occupied by the Police Station Sadar, Jalandhar. It is alleged that the above stated premises is owned by the Society and in the year 1984 when militancy was at its zenith in Punjab, that the Police Department occupied it. It is further alleged that neither the rent nor the user charges are being paid to the Society nor the police authorities intend to vacate the said building though it is urgently required by the Society to carry out its expanded business activities. It is also alleged that the Society has already C.W.P.No .1582 of 2011 2 served the respondents with a legal notice dated 15th December, 2010 (Annexure P-2) but there appears to be no intention of the police authorities to vacate the premises. It is true that ordinarily the writ Court would have relegated the petitioner-Society to the alternative remedy of a civil suit, however, having regard to its allegations that the subject premises is occupied by the police authorities without payment of any rent/user charges and they are not inclined to vacate it though more than 25 years have passed, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the Director General of Police, Punjab, to consider the claim raised by the petitioner- Society and take remedial steps for redressal of its grievances within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order, failing which the petitioner-Society shall be at liberty to approach the appropriate forum to claim special damages besides vacation of the premises. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. January 28, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE