IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.19064 of 2010 Date of Decision : October 25, 2010. Surinder Pal Kaur Brar .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Ms.Alka Chatrath, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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) The petitioner, who retired from the post of Principal of S.D. College for Women, Moga, is aggrieved by the ex-parte enquiry report dated 15.2.2007 (Annexure P-12) as well as the order dated 18.9.2007 (Annexure P-15) passed by the Management of the College, whereby penalty of Rs.2,63,194/- has been imposed and deducted from the gratuity and arrears of additional dearness allowance payable to her on retirement. In my considered view, the impugned order is appealable before the State Government under the Punjab Privately Managed School and Colleges Act, 1974. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to file a statutory appeal before the Prescribed Authority. There would undoubtedly be inordinate delay on the part of the C.W.P.No .19064 of 2010 2 petitioner in filing the appeal. The petitioner may accordingly seek condonation of the delay and if such an application alongwith the appeal is filed by the petitioner within a period of one month from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order, the Appellate Authority is directed to consider the same sympathetically and make an endeavour to decide the appeal on merits, in accordance with law. Dasti. October 25, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE