IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.14869 of 2011 Date of Decision : August 16, 2011. Sagar Devi .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Sandeep Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner was a Lecturer-in-Political Science in the School Cadre and was due for retirement w.e.f. 31.1.2010 on attaining the age of 58 years. It is alleged that the petitioner was retained in service for two additional months, i.e., February and March, 2010 but no salary has been paid to her despite the approval of extension in her services for these two months. Aggrieved by the non-payment of salary, the petitioner sent a legal notice dated 11.4.2011 (Annexure P-3) to which the Principal of G.S.S.School, Jallowal Khanur, District Hoshiarpur, sent a reply dated 25.5.2011 (Annexure P-4) acknowledging the service rendered by the petitioner for additional two months and informing that the case has been CWP No.14869 of 2011 [2] sent to the Competent Authority for necessary approval. The petitioner thereafter, sent a reminder dated 2.6.2011 (Annexure P-5) but it is alleged that the salary has not been paid so far. In these circumstances, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to take necessary steps for the redressal of the petitioner's grievances as contained in the aforementioned legal notice and the reminder. The needful shall be done within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. August 16, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE