IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.12031 of 2007 Date of decision : 06.04.2011 Swinder Kaur … Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others …Respondents CORAM : HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI Present: Mr.G.S.Bal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Puneet Gupta, Addl.AG, Punjab. Permod Kohli, J. The husband of the petitioner retired on 31.1.2006 on attaining the age of 58 years. Unfortunately, he died on 10.6.2006 before his pension could be sanctioned. This petition has been filed by the widow of the deceased govt. employee seeking a direction for payment of pension, family pension and other retiral benefits of the deceased govt. employee. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that during the pendency of this petition, all the claims have been paid except the commuted pension. The respondents in their reply have stated that some criminal case was pending against the deceased govt. employee and due to that reason, his retiral benefits could not be sanctioned. In view of the fact that the employee has died, the criminal proceedings initiated against him, also stand automatically, terminated. Thus, there is no legal impediment for grant of pensionary/retiral benefits to the petitioner. In view of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to settle the claim of the petitioner in respect of commuted pension within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of the order. ( Permod Kohli ) Judge 06.04.2011 sd