C.W.P. No. 8440 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 8440 of 2011 Date of Decision : May 12, 2011 Jagdish Rai Juneja .... PETITIONER Vs. Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Punjab, Chandigarh and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH * * * Present : Ms. Jagdeep Bains, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH, J. (ORAL) As per the petitioner's claim, the petitioner despite having retired on 30.04.2007 as a Manager of the Guru Har Sahai Cooperative Marketing-cum-Processing Society Ltd., which has been merged with the Punjab State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Ltd. on 24.12.2008, he had to, on various occasions, fight for his retiral benefits. The petitioner had earlier approached the Registrar, Cooperative Societies on two occasions and this is the third petition, which has been preferred by him, which is dated 19.08.2010 but the same has not been decided till date and is pending consideration with the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, C.W.P. No. 8440 of 2011 2 Punjab-respondent No. 1. Counsel prays that the petitioner would be satisfied at this stage if a direction be issued to respondent No. 1 to consider the claim made by the petitioner through his petition dated 19.08.2010 within some specified time. Without going into the merits of the case or commenting thereon, the present petition is disposed of with a direction to Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Punjab-respondent No. 1 to consider the petition dated 19.08.2010 preferred by the petitioner preferably within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order or from the date already fixed in the matter and the decision taken thereon be conveyed to the petitioner forthwith. In case, the petitioner is held entitled to the claim which has been made by him in the petition, the same shall be released by The Punjab State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited-respondent No. 3 within a period of further four weeks. (AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH ) May 12, 2011 JUDGE pj