IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.16286 of 2010 Date of Decision : September 10, 2010. Parveen Datta .....Petitioner versus Punjab State Electricity Board and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Manish Prabhakar, 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 respondent- authorities to release him two annual grade increments which were with- held as he failed to qualify the Punjabi Type Test. The petitioner has placed on record the resolution dated 28.7.2005 (Annexure P-4) which indicates that he had passed the Punjabi Type test at the speed of 30 words per minute. The petitioner is also said to have undergone the Computer Course at the expenses of the P.S.E.B., as is required under the Rules. On this premise, the petitioner urges that since he has acquired the requisite qualification for want of which his two increments were with-held, the respondents are liable to release the with-held increments. In this regard, the petitioner is said to have served the respondents with a legal notice C.W.P.No .16286 of 2010 2 dated 25.1.2008 (Annexure P-10) also but there is no response thereto even after expiry of over two years. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner, however, without expressing any views on the merits of the case, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent Nos.2 to 4 to consider and decide the petitioner's claim with regard to the release of withheld increments, as contained in the aforesaid legal notice, in accordance with law, by passing a speaking order within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. September 10, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE