IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 707 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : 17.01.2008 Paramjit Kaur .... PETITIONER Versus Union of India and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR GARG Present: Mr. R.K. Bajaj, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL, J. ( Oral ) This is the second petition filed by the petitioner. In her earlier petition (CWP No. 2151 of 2007), action of respondent No.2, attaching the Saving Fund Account belonging to the petitioner, was quashed, while observing as under :- “In view of the above, we dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondents to release her bank accounts on or before 27.8.2007. The petitioner is at liberty to file appropriate application to claim interest from the date of attachment i.e. 2.8.2005 till the release of her account. We further find that there was no justifiable reason for the CWP No. 707 of 2008 -2- respondents to proceed against the petitioner without any credible material or information. It is made clear that while releasing Saving Fund Account No. 25854 belonging to the petitioner which is maintained with Canara Bank, Football Chowk, Jalandhar, we should not be understood to have expressed any opinion with regard to the account belonging to Shri Kuldeep Singh, who is husband of the petitioner. The petitioner is entitled to her costs which are determined at Rs. 10,000/- with costs shall be initially paid by respondent No.4 and the same shall be recovered from the officer/official who may be found responsible after holding enquiry. The enquiry shall be completed within a period of three months from the date of receipt of copy of this order.” In pursuance of the said order passed by this Court, the petitioner filed an application dated 29.8.2007 (Annexure P-4), claiming interest at the rate 6% per annum under Rule 8 of the Foreign Exchange (Authentication of Documents) Rules, 2000. When the said application was not decided, a reminder dated 11.10.2007 (Annexure P-5) was sent by the petitioner. Even then the application was not decided. Then, second reminder dated 30.11.2007 (Annexure P-6) was sent by the petitioner. It has been stated that in spite of the two reminders, till date, the respondents are not taking decision on the application filed by the petitioner. Keeping in view the earlier direction given by this Court in CWP No. 707 of 2008 -3- CWP No. 2151 of 2007, without calling the other side, as it will further delay the matter un-necessarily, we dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent No.2 to consider and decide the application filed by the petitioner for payment of the interest in terms of the earlier order dated 20.8.2007, passed by this Court, in accordance with law, within a period of one month, by passing a speaking order. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE January 17, 2008 ( RAKESH KUMAR GARG ) ndj JUDGE