IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.12141 of 2009 Date of Decision: 12.08.2009 The Kup Kalan Cooperative Labour and Construction Society Ltd. Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH Present: Mr.Parminder Singh Sekhon, Advocate for the petitioner ….. Jasbir Singh, J.(Oral) By filing this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed that directions be issued to the respondents, to release admitted payment, due to it towards execution of work, allotted to it vide work Order No.61 dated 16.2.2009. It is case of the petitioner that it has successfully executed the work, as mentioned above, however, the payment has not been released to it. Thereafter, the petitioner has served legal notices both dated 29.6.2009 (P1 and P2) for releasing the payment, which are still pending undecided. This Court feels that if there is no defect in the work executed by the petitioner, the authorities are not justified to detain amount due to it. In view of facts mentioned above, this writ petition is disposed of by issuing directions to respondent No.4 to decide legal notices served by the petitioner and if there is no legal hitch, release admitted payment to the Civil Writ Petition No.12141 of 2009 petitioner, within three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, failing which, the petitioner shall be entitled to get interest @ 8% per annum from the date the amount had become due to it till its realisation. To the contrary, if the officer concerned wishes to reject claim of the petitioner, on valid grounds, a speaking order be passed and a copy thereof be supplied to the petitioner. 12.08.2009 (Jasbir Singh) gk Judge 2