IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.14734 of 2011 Date of Decision: August 11, 2011 Rattan Singh ...Petitioner Versus Union of India & others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 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? Present: Mr.J.D.Gautam, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner was drawing pension w.e.f. 28.2.1979. Subsequently, however, an FIR was registered against him on 12.8.2004. Thereafter, the department has withheld his retiral benefits. As per the counsel, this cannot be done. For the same cause, the petitioner has served a legal notice, which is pending adjudication. Without making any comment on the merits of the case, the present writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to decide the legal notice of the petitioner within a period of three months from the date of receipt of copy of this order. August 11, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE