IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1693 of 1989 Date of decision: 19.05.2010 Jagtar Singh and others ….Petitioners versus The Registrar Cooperative Societies, Punjab at Chandigarh and another. …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ------ Present: None . ----- 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? ----- K.Kannan, J (Oral) 1. The case is of the year 1989 but none appears for either side. Having regard to the nature of relief sought in the writ petition, I am of the view that there could be nothing to survive in the writ petition for consideration and, therefore, I hasten to pass this following order although both parties are not present. 2. The issue involved in the writ petition is whether the petitioners, who claim themselves to be the employees of the Jalandhar Central Cooperative Bank Limited, Jalandhar, could withhold the payment of dearness allowance of the petitioners in accordance with the settlement that they had entered into with the employees of the Bank. By citing the passing of Section 84-B of the Punjab Cooperative Societies Act that allowed for fixation of the dearness allowance on the basis of Civil Writ Petition No.1693 of 1989 - 2 - the rates prescribed under the Punjab Government, the writ petitioners state that Section 84-B itself was declared ultra vires by judgment of this Court reported under reference 1988(2) NLR 593. By the said judgment, the Bench of this Court had held that the settlement that had already been entered into could be valid and binding between the parties and the Class-III and Class-IV employees of the Cooperative Bank Employees would be entitled to claim and obtain dearness pay in terms of the said settlement. By virtue of the said judgment, the reliefs sought for by the petitioners should have been granted nothing survives for consideration. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed as having become infructuous. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 19.05.2010. sanjeev