IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2175 of 2011 Date of Decision : February 04, 2011. Smt.Surjeet Kaur .....Petitioner versus Punjab State Power Corporation and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.V.K.Sandhir, 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 seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to release the retiral benefits including the pension, gratuity, leave encashment, commutation of pension and the arrears of revised pension and salary etc. of her deceased-husband. It is averred that the husband of the petitioner Balbir Singh joined the respondent-department on 24.6.1970 and he retired from the post of Junior Engineer w.e.f. 30.4.2005 on attaining the age of superannuation. He unfortunately died on 21.6.2007. It is alleged that most of the retiral dues of the petitioner's husband have been with-held due to initiation of disciplinary proceedings against him vide charge/memo dated 7.4.2005 (Annexure P-1) which were not finalized till he retired C.W.P.No .2175 of 2011 2 and/or even thereafter and meanwhile, he unfortunately passed away. The petitioner is said to have submitted several representations to the authorities followed by a legal notice dated 30.1.2009 (Annexure P-15), but without any response thereto so far. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and keeping in view the nature of relief sought in this writ petition and the fact that the disciplinary proceedings cannot culminate into any punishment order after the death of an employee, it appears imperative upon the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioner for the release of the retiral dues of her husband as also the family pension to her. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to respondent Nos.2 to 5 to take cognizance of the above mentioned claims and release the due payments to the petitioner in accordance with the rules within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. The respondents shall also consider the petitioner's claim for the award of interest for the delayed payments at a suitable rate and in the event of refusal, liberty is granted to the petitioner to re-agitate the matter before an appropriate forum. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. February 04, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE