CWP No.14848 of 2006 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP NO.14848 OF 2006 DATE OF DECISION: 27.05.2008 Gulzar Masih Malik .....PETITIONER VERSUS Union of India and others .....RESPONDENTS CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MOHINDER PAL PRESENT: Mr.Ashu Kaushik, Advocate for the petitioner. Mrs.Renu Bala Sharma, Central Govt. Standing Counsel for Union of India. Ms.Madhu Dayal, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. HEMANT GUPTA, J. The petitioner claims a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to pay adequate compensation for the services rendered by the petitioner. It is the case of the petitioner that he was working for Indian Army Intelligence since 01.01.1965. After completing regular training at Jallandhar Cantt., he was assigned the duty of collecting information from Pakistan. He was caught by the Pakistan Army and was sentenced to 12 years of rigorious imprisonment by the General Field Court Martial. In the year 1974, the petitioner was sent back to India but the Government of India has not recognized his services and not paid any salary or compensation. CWP No.14848 of 2006 2 In response to the writ petition, learned counsel for the respondents has produced a communication dated 24.05.2008 by the Lt.Col., OIC Legal Cell to the effect that the Headquarter Intelligence and FS Gp and its unit came into being in 1979. All available records have been checked but no documents/correspondence pertaining to recruitment of the petitioner as a source by Headquarter Intelligence and FS Gp and its unit has been found. It is also pointed out that recruitment for military intelligence is not carried out as enumerated by the petitioner in his petition. In view of the fact that there is no document or proof of the petitioner having been engaged by the Indian Army, we do not find that the petitioner can be granted any relief in the present writ petition. Dismissed. (HEMANT GUPTA) JUDGE ( MOHINDER PAL ) May 27, 2008 JUDGE jt