IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.10325 of 2011 Date of Decision : July 08, 2011. Kundan Singh Behal .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.S.K.Rattan, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms.Charu Tuli, Sr.DAG, Punjab. -.- 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) Notice of motion. Ms.Charu Tuli, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to seek any counter reply from the respondents at this stage. The petitioner who is a retired S.S.Master from the Education Department, Government of Punjab, seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to take into consideration the service rendered by him in the Government Aided Privately Managed School w.e.f. 9.5.1972 to 26.3.1980 as qualifying service for the purpose of pensionary benefits on his CWP No.10375 of 2011 [2] retirement from the Government service. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the controversy involved in this case stands settled by a decision dated 10.3.2010 rendered by this Court in CWP No.14238 of 1991 (Sukhdev Singh and others versus State of Punjab and others). The present writ petition is accordingly allowed in terms of the afore-stated order dated 10.3.2010 passed in Sukhdev Singh's case (supra). Dasti. July 08, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE