IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH **** C.W.P. No.21590 of 2008 Date of Decision:12.07.2011 Smt. Rajinder Kaur .....Petitioner Vs. Punjab State Electricity Board and others .....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE DAYA CHAUDHARY Present:- Mr. S.P. Thukral, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. A.S. Chaudhary, Advocate for respondents No.1 and 2. Mr. Jai Singh Yadav, Advocate for Mr. Sachin Mittal, Advocate for respondents No.3 and 4. **** DAYA CHAUDHARY, J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed for quashing of impugned order dated 18.3.2008 vide which the claim of the petitioner, in view of direction issued by this Court in C.W.P. No.19160 of 2007, has been rejected. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that pay of the petitioner has been reduced without issuing any show cause notice and without affording any opportunity of hearing to her. Learned counsel for the petitioner also submits that under similar facts and circumstances, a C.W.P. No.18011 of 2009 was filed by one Hem Singh Himalayan which was disposed of on 25.5.2011 and the respondents were directed to grant the benefit as claimed by the petitioner and liberty was granted to issue show cause notice to him. The case of the petitioner is also on equal C.W.P. No.21590 of 2008 -2- footing. Learned counsel for Punjab State Electricity Board as well as Bhakra Beas Management Board have not disputed the submission made by learned counsel for the petitioner as well as order passed in C.W.P. No.18011 of 2009. In view of submissions made by learned counsel for the parties and the order passed in C.W.P. No.18011 of 2009, the present petition is disposed of with a direction to respondents to grant benefit pension and other retiral benefits to the petitioner on the basis of salary drawn by him at the time of retirement and impugned order dated 18.3.2008 is quashed and respondents are at liberty to pass a fresh order after issuing show cause notice and affording an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner. The petition is disposed of accordingly. July 12, 2011 ( DAYA CHAUDHARY ) renu JUDGE