CWP No. 19263 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No. 19263 of 2008 Date of decision 7 .10.2010 Anand Nishikawa Worker's Union ... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ... Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: None for the petitioner Mr.Suvir Sehgal, Addl. Advocate General Punjab. 1.To be referred to the Reporter or not ? 2.Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest ? M.M.KUMAR, J. The Anand Nishikawa Worker's Union has filed the instant petition challenging the notification dated 10.10.2008 (P.3) issued by the State of Punjab abolishing the Industrial Tribunal, Punjab Chandigarh. The petitioners have claimed that their cases have been pending in the aforesaid Tribunal in which arguments have been heard. Accordingly to the allegations, those cases were fixed for orders. In a connected petition filed by the Presiding Officer of the Industrial Tribunal namely Shri Arunjit Lal Verma v. State of Punjab and others (CWP No. 18023 of 2008), we have taken the view that the question of examining the impugned notification has been rendered infructuous because the tenure of five years for which the Presiding Officer was appointed as such has since expired even though he was removed before completion of his tenure on account of abolition of the Industrial Tribunal. Therefore it became academic to examine the challenge CWP No. 19263 of 2008 2 to the impugned notification dated 10.10.2008. Accordingly in the present case also the Tribunal has been abolished and there is no officer available. The cases where the petitioner is a party stood already transferred and some of them might have been decided already. Therefore, we are not inclined to enter into any academic discussion in respect of the impugned notification dated 10.10.2008. The writ petition is rendered infructuous and is disposed of as such. (M.M.Kumar) Judge ( Ritu Bahri ) 7 .10.2010 Judge okg