IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1809 of 1994 Date of Decision : March 03, 2010. Balbir Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Pawan Kumar, Senior Advocate with Mr.N.S.Jagdeva, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms.Charu Tuli, Senior DAG, Punjab. -.- 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? --- ORDER Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner was a Junior Engineer in PWD (B&R) Branch, Kapurthala at the time when he approached this Court against the order dated 4.1.1994 (Annexure P-13) whereby de-novo enquiry was started against him in respect of the charge-sheets dated 25.9.1979 and 7.6.1982 (Annexures P-1 and P-2 respectively). While admitting the writ petition, further enquiry proceedings were stayed by a Division Bench of this Court vide order dated 25.4.1994. It is not in dispute that during the pendency of this writ C.W.P.No .1809 of 1994 2 petition, the petitioner has retired from service w.e.f. 30.11.2001 on attaining the age of superannuation and thereafter, the retiral dues have already been released to him. That being so, the writ petition has been rendered infructuous as no enquiry can be permitted to be initiated against the petitioner at this stage. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. March 03, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE