IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.8953 of 2011 Date of decision: 20th May, 2011 Geeta Devi … Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Sandeep Bansal, Advocate for the petitioner. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL) Present writ petition has been filed seeking a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to release the family pension, gratuity and other entitled payments along with arrears to the petitioner at the earliest. It is stated in this petition that son of the petitioner was appointed as a Social Studies Master in the DAV Senior Secondary School (Boys), Karnal-respondent No.4 (hereinafter referred to as, ‘the School’). It is further pleaded that he was promoted to the post of Lecturer in English in the month of June, 2008 and he died on 13th June, 2010. The petitioner had served a notice (Annexure P-6) dated 19th January, 2011 upon the respondents. Respondent No.4, the School where son of the petitioner was employed, replied to the notice on 15th February, 2011 and stated as under: “9-13. That in reply to the contents of Para No.9 to 13 of the Notice it is submitted that your client has already been paid the CPF after it was sanctioned by D.E.O. and the case regarding grant of financial assistance, pension and gratuity has already been sent to the Director, School Education by the School Authority without any delay, however, the sanction of the Director is still awaited.” Civil Writ Petition No.8953 of 2011 During the course of arguments, counsel for the petitioner has stated that since the Director, School Education, Haryana has not taken any decision upon the cases sent by the School through the District Education Officer, unnecessarily delay is being caused. Learned counsel has further stated that in case the present petition is disposed of at this stage with a direction to the Director, School Education, Haryana to decide the case of the petitioner within a specified timeframe, without prejudice to the rights of the petitioner, he will be satisfied. Issue notice of motion to respondents No.1 to 3 only. In view of the reply filed by respondent No.4 to the legal notice served upon it by the petitioner, issuance of notice of this petition to respondent No.4 is dispensed with at this stage. On the asking of Court, Ms. Shruti Sharma, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana, accepts notice on behalf of respondents No.1 to 3. A copy of the petition has been supplied to her and she has gone through the same. Without going into the merits of the controversy, at this stage the present petition is disposed of by issuing a direction to the Director, School Education, Haryana to decide the case of the petitioner sent to him by the School through the District Education Officer, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. However, the petitioner will be at liberty to assail the order, so passed by the Director, School Education, Haryana in accordance with the provisions of law. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE May 20, 2011 rps 2