IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. LPA No. 1705 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: December 16, 2010 Sri Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College, Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur …Appellant Versus Mohinder Singh Chaudhary and others …Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. R.K. Dadwal, Advocate, for the appellant. 1. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? M.M. KUMAR, J. 1. This appeal filed under Clause X of the Letters Patent is directed against order dated 17.9.2010 rendered by the learned Single Judge upholding the order of the Education Tribunal, Punjab, Chandigarh (for brevity, ‘the Tribunal’), which has granted respondent Nos. 1 to 4 enhanced amount of gratuity. It has been found that in terms of Government circular duly endorsed by the Panjab University and forwarded vide letter dated 14.7.1999, enhanced amount of gratuity is payable with effect from 1.1.2006. The private respondents who retired on different dates after 1.1.2006 have been rightly held entitled to the aforesaid relief. 2. After hearing learned counsel for the appellant, we find no ground to interfere in the view taken by the learned Single Judge. Merely because the appellant is to make the payment to the private respondents first and then to claim it from the State Government/DPI Colleges in accordance with the grant-in-aid scheme, no interference in the view taken by the learned Single Judge would be warranted. The private respondents have served the appellant-college and the enhanced amount of gratuity is payable by it. There is, thus, no merit in the appeal. Dismissed. (M.M. KUMAR) JUDGE (RITU BAHRI) L.P.A. No. 1705 of 2010 (O&M) December 16, 2010 JUDGE Pkapoor 2