IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.8624 of 2010 Date of Decision : May 12, 2010. Surinder Pal Kaur .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.S.K.Rattan, 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 is working as a Lecturer-in-Math (School Cadre) in Government Senior Secondary School, Dholwaha, District Hoshiarpur. While she claims to be on casual leave on 26.8.2009, the authorities have treated her absent from duty and after issuing a show cause notice to her, have imposed the punishment of stoppage of one annual increment without cumulative effect. The petitioner has already preferred a statutory appeal under the Punjab Civil Services (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1970 against the above mentioned order on 24.2.2010 (Annexure P-9). Thereafter, the petitioner served the authorities with a legal notice dated 1.4.2010 (Annexure P-10) also. Her appeal is yet to be decided. C.W.P.No .8624 of 2010 2 In these circumstances and without commenting upon the merits of the case, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the first respondent to decide the petitioner's appeal within a period of two months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order and after affording an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioner. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. May 12, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE