HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH **** CWP No.12892 of 2009 (O&M) Date of Decision: 11.08.2011 **** S. Tara Singh . . . . Petitioner VS. Secretary, Punjab Vidhan Sabha & Anr. . . . . Respondents **** CORAM : HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT **** 1. Whether Reporters of local papers 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? **** Present: Mr. APS Deol, Senior Advocate Mr. Daleep Singh, Advocate for the petitioner(s) Ms. Sudeepti Sharma, DAG Punjab **** SURYA KANT J. (ORAL) (1). This order shall dispose of CWP Nos.12892 & 12893 of 2009 as issues involved are common. For brevity, the facts are being extracted from CWP No.12892 of 2009. (2). The petitioner who retired from the post of Under Secretary from the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat has approached this Court for quashing of the order dated 14.11.2008 & 23.10.2008 (Annexure P1 & P2, respectively) whereby payment of pension and other pensionary benefits to the petitioner was stopped as well as the order dated 29.06.2009 (Annexure P3) vide which the representation made by him in regard thereto, has been rejected. CWP No.12892 of 2009.doc - 2 – (3). During the pendency of the writ petition(s) and pursuant to the various orders passed by this Court from time to time, the pension has since been released to the petitioner vide order dated 05.04.2011. (4). The only issue that now survives consideration is the payment of pension for the period during which it remained stopped pursuant to the order dated 14.11.2008. (5). Since the respondents have accepted the petitioner’s entitlement to pension, there is no rhyme or reason for not paying the arrears/interest during which the pension remained withheld. (6). The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the respondents to release the arrears of pension for the withheld period within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order along with interest @ 7% per annum. (7). Ordered accordingly. Dasti. 11.08.2011 vishal shonkar (S u r y a K a n t) Judge 2