IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.6676 of 2010 Date of Decision : April 09, 2010. Surinder Kaur .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Puneet Gupta, 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 seeks a mandamus to grant her the death-cum- retiral benefits including the ex-gratia grant, gratuity, leave encashment, provident fund, pension etc., on account of death of her adopted farther late Sh.Jagdish Singh who was working as a Water Carrier in the respondent-department and has unfortunately passed away on 12.7.2009. The petitioner's case is that late Sh.Jagdish Singh had adopted her vide registered Adoption Deed dated 27.12.1991 (Annexure P-1) which is duly signed by the deceased-employee as well as the natural parents of the petitioner. In the matriculation certificate (Annexure P-2) also the petitioner is shown to be the daughter of late Sh.Jagdish Singh. As noticed above, the petitioner's adopted father has C.W.P.No .6676 of 2010 2 unfortunately passed away. She accordingly seeks the service benefits of his deceased father as well as her own appointment on compassionate grounds. In this regard, the petitioner has served the respondents through a legal notice dated 4.1.2010 (Annexure P-3) but without any response. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and keeping in view the fact that the claims of the petitioner appears to be pending consideration before the authorities, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent No.2 to take cognizance of the legal notice dated 4.1.2010 (Annexure P-3) and dispose of the pending claims of the petitioner by passing a speaking order, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. April 09, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE