IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 17616 of 2009 DATE OF DECISION : 17.11.2009 Suresh Chander ... PETITIONER Versus Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. R.N. Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner, who was working as Commercial Assistant with the respondent Nigam and has retired from service on 30.11.2008, has filed the instant petition for issuing direction to the respondents to release his retiral benefits, like pension, gratuity and leave encashment etc., which according to the petitioner have not been released till date. It is the case of the petitioner that in this regard, he has served a legal notice dated 12.5.2009 upon the respondents, copy of which has been annexed as Annexure P-3, and subsequently, he sent a reminder on 20.8.2009, copy of which has been annexed as Annexure P-4, but the respondents did not take any decision on the same and till date, the retiral benefits have not been released to the petitioner. Counsel states that at this stage, the petitioner will be satisfied if a direction is issued to the Chief CWP No. 17616 of 2009 -2- Engineer (Operation), Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd., Rohtak (respondent No.2 herein) to consider and decide the aforesaid legal notice within a reasonable time. In view of the above, without issuing notice of motion as it will un-necessary delay the matter, this petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2 to consider and decide the legal notice dated 12.5.2009 (Annexure P-3) in accordance with law, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. November 17, 2009 ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) ndj JUDGE