IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP NO.13660 of 2006 DATE OF DECISION: August 29,2006 JC 265628-A Ex. Naib Subedar (GD) Harjit Singh ….Petitioner VERSUS Union of India and others …..Respondents CORAM:- HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE VINEY MITTAL HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.BHALLA PRESENT: Shri Rajeev Anand, Advocate for the petitioner. Viney Mittal,J.(Oral). Notice of motion to the respondents. On the asking of Court, Shri Naveen Chopra, Standing Counsel for the Union of India accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Copies of the writ petition have been supplied to the learned counsel for the respondents. The petitioner has approached this Court for issuance of directions to the respondents to decide the claim of the petitioner qua the disability pension, stated to be pending for more than 20 months. From the perusal of the record, we find that a legal notice dated June 1,2006 (Annexure P.8) has been issued by the petitioner, which remains unresponded. CWP NO.13660 of 2006 -2- In this view of the matter, without going into the merits of the claim made by the petitioner, we dispose of the present petition with a direction to the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions),Allahabad respondent No.3 to take a final decision on the aforesaid legal notice (Annexure P.8) within a period of four months from the date a certified copy of this order is received, by passing a detailed and speaking order. A copy of the order be given dasti on payment of usual charges. (Viney Mittal) Judge August 29,2006 (H.S. Bhalla) KD Judge