IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.7224 of 1991 (O&M) Date of decision:26.08.2011 The Managing Committee, Bhagwanti Laroya Memorial Girls College, Nawanshahr. ...Petitioner versus The State of Punjab, through the Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Education, Chandigarh, and another. ....Respondents II. Civil Writ Petition No.7225 of 1991 (O&M) Managing Committee, D.A.N. College of Education, Nawanshahr Doaba, through its Secretary, K.K.Sangar, and another. ...Petitioners versus State of Punjab, through the Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Education, Chandigarh, and another. ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Vijay Pal, Advocate, for Mr. Girish Agnihotri, Senior Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Navdeep Sukhna, DAG, Punjab. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No. 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No. 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No. ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) The above two cases have been directed already by order of this Court that they shall be heard after the disposal of LPA No.147 of 1991. The learned counsel for the petitioners states that the said LPA Civil Writ Petition No.7224 of 1991 (O&M) - 2 - was dismissed. The Division Bench of this Court held while posing the question whether denial of gratuity to retiring teachers by Government aided private colleges could be justified on the ground that no aid had been extended to them towards their liability on the particular account that there could be no direction by a Court to the Government to provide such aid since it was essentially a matter of policy. In terms of the said judgment, the above writ petitions are also required to be dismissed. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE 26.08.2011 sanjeev