IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No. 20223 of 2008 Date of decision: December 1, 2008 Dr.Jaspal Singh --- Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ---- Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashutosh Mohunta Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajan Gupta Present: Mr. MLSachdeva, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ashutosh Mohunta, J (Oral). The petitioner prays for issuance of direction to respondent No. 5 to make payment of arrears of Dearness Allowance from 27-8-2002 to 30-9-2004 and from 1.4.2005 to 26-8-2005 amounting to Rs. 1,11,532/-. The petitioner had earlier filed Civil Writ Petition No. 11390 of 2005, which was disposed of as having become infructuous vide order dated 28-10-2005 as a cheque worth Rs.2,65,468/- was issued in the name of the petitioner. Counsel submits that while giving the aforesaid amount, the arrears of merged dearness allowance was not paid to the petitioner, who filed representations, Annexures P14 & P15, but despite that the same has not been paid. After hearing the counsel,we dispose of the present writ petition with a direction to respondents No. 2 & 5 to decide the representations Annexures P14 & P15 of the petitioner in accordance with law, within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. [Ashutosh Mohunta] Judge [Rajan Gupta] Judge December 1, 2008 `ask'