IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5154 of 1989 (O&M) Date of decision:01.06.2011 Rikhi Ram Bhargav (deceased) through his LRs ...Petitioner versus The State of Haryana and another ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Kasturi Lal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Satbir Singh Goripuria, DAG, Haryana. ---- 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) Counsel for the petitioner states that the subject of grant of gratuity for a person, who had retired in the year 1974, that is, after the coming into force of the Gratuity Act, is covered by a decision of this Court in Kundan Lal Narang Versus The State of Haryana-1987 (2) CLJ 671. The Bench has held that the Municipal employees retired after the enforcement of the Act are entitled to payment of gratuity in accordance with the provisions of the Act. The writ petition is allowed in terms of the decision referred to above. The amount shall be Civil Writ Petition No.5154 of 1989 (O&M) - 2 - calculated and paid to the legal representatives of the deceased employee with 9% interest within a period of 8 weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE 01 .06.2011 sanjeev