IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No. 8348 of 2008 Date of decision: November 25, 2008 Nand Lal --- Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ---- Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashutosh Mohunta Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajan Gupta Present: Mr. Binderjit Singh , Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. BS Chahal, DAG, Punjab. Ashutosh Mohunta, J (Oral). The petitioner prays for quashing the orders Annexures P3 and P4, vide which recovery of Rs. 1,85,274/- has been imposed upon the petitioner by reducing his family pension. Counsel for the petitioner submits that this case is squarely covered by the decision of this Court in CWP No. 891 of 2003, titled 'Mukhtiar Singh & others Vs. State of Punjab and others.' Counsel for the respondents does not dispute the aforesaid legal position. He further submits that the State of Punjab had filed SLP before the Hon'ble Apex Court against the judgment in Mukhtiar Singh's case ( supra), which has since been dismissed. In view of the above, we allow the present writ petition in terms of the decision in Mukhatiar Singh's case (supra). [Ashutosh Mohunta] Judge [Rajan Gupta] Judge November 25, 2008 `ask'