IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 10840 of 2011 Baru Ram .....Petitioner VERSUS Commissioner, Employees Provident Fund Bhavishey Nidhi Bhawan, and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH PRESENT: Mr. Ashok Kumar Khubbar, Advocate, for the petitioner. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner retired in the year 2001. When the retiral benefits were not being released, he filed a civil suit. The civil suit was decreed. Thereafter, the petitioner filed an execution application. In response, majority of the benefits were released, but the pension was not released and it was stated that the case is pending with respondent No.1. The petitioner has now filed the present petition to seek direction for release of his pension on the ground that he could not implead the authority, which was competent to release the pension in the civil suit filed. The respondents, in my view, are not justified in withholding the pension payable to the petitioner. Merely because the petitioner did not implead proper party may not be a reason to sit over the matter. The petitioner has served a legal notice, which is pending and not being decided. The present writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of with direction to the respondents to decide the said legal notice within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. The pension, if otherwise payable, shall be released to the petitioner within this period. June 03 , 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) monika JUDGE