IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No. 3096 of 2010 Date of decision: 21.6.2010 Ram Krishan Dhaloch ….. Petitioner. Vs. State of H.P. and others …. Respondents. Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph, Chief Justice. The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kuldip Singh, Judge. For the Petitioner : Mr. Surinder Saklani, Advocate. For the Respondents : Mr. R.K.Sharma, Sr. Additional Advocate General. Justice Kurian Joseph, C.J. (Oral) The petitioner has prayed for following relief in the writ petition:- “ (i) That a writ of mandamus may very kindly be issued thereby directing respondents to consider the case of the present petitioner for gallantry award in view of his exceptional bravery in the Indo-pak war in 1965 as per the recommendations of the then Commanding Officer as contained in Annexure P-1. (ii) That after awarding gallantry award all the consequential benefits attached to the gallantry award may also be granted in favour of the petitioner. 2. We find that letter Annexure P-4 and representation Annexure P-7 are pending before the second respondent. Therefore, we direct the second respondent to take a final decision in the matter within a period of two months from the date of production of a copy of this order alongwith the copy of writ petition. Copy dasti. (Justice Kurian Joseph), Chief Justice. June 21, 2010 (Justice Kuldip Singh), (Hem) Judge.