CWP No. 977 of 2003 (1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 977 of 2003 Date of decision: September 1, 2008 Vijay Kumar and others --- Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ---- Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashutosh Mohunta Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajan Gupta Present: Mr. KPS Sandhu, Advocate, for the petitioners Mr. KS Dadwal, Addl. AG, Punjab. Ashutosh Mohunta, J. The petitioners, who are working in the Education Department as Lecturers, Clerks, Peons, Beldars, sweepers etc., and are posted within a radius of 10 miles (or 16 kilometers) from the international border with Pakistan, have prayed for quashing the action of the respondents in effecting recovery of house rent allowance from them. Reply has been filed on behalf of respondents No.1 to 3, wherein it has been averred that the Government has decided vide instructions No. 1/21/2005-2FP-1/1073 dated 6-2-2008 to protect the house rent allowance as they were drawing before 1.9.1988. Therefore, the claim of the petitioners has fully been covered under CWP No. 977 of 2003 (2) these instructions dated 6-2-2008 and the same will be paid to them as per these instructions. In view of the aforementioned stand taken by the respondents, nothing survives in this petition, which stands disposed of accordingly. [Ashutosh Mohunta] Judge [Rajan Gupta] Judge September 1, 2008 `ask'