C.W.P. No.18581 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No.18581 of 2011 Date of Decision: 30.09.2011 Sushil Kumar ....Petitioner Versus State of Haryana through its Commissioner and Secretary, Urban Development, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents CORAM : Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present:- Mr. B.B. Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner. ***** 1. Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers 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 ? ** NIRMALJIT KAUR, J. (ORAL) The prayer of the petitioner in the present petition is for issuance of direction to the respondents to release the balance payment of gratuity after considering full length of service of 40 years along with interest. It is contended that vide Annexure P-2, it was ordered that the suspension period shall be counted towards pension etc. Thereafter, the said order was upheld by the Appellate Authority, as well as, by this Court in Civil Writ Petition No.8204 of 2008 (Annexure P-6), decided on 08.12.2009. However, while granting the same towards pension, the concerned authority had not considered the same for the purpose of gratuity. The petitioner had served a legal notice dated 10.09.2010. However, the same is still pending and no decision has been taken on the same. In view of the above, the present petition is disposed of with a C.W.P. No.18581 of 2011 2 direction to respondent No.3 to decide the same as expeditiously as possible preferably within two month from the receipt of a copy of this order. However, in case, the petitioner is entitled for the said relief, the same shall be released forthwith. In case, the claim of the petitioner is to be rejected, the same shall be by passing a speaking order. (NIRMALJIT KAUR) 30.09.2011 JUDGE gurpreet