IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No.4810 of 2009 DATE OF DECISION: MARCH 26, 2009 Jaswant Singh .....PETITIONER Versus The Punjab State Warehousing Corporation and another ....RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL --- Present: Ms.Jagdeep Bains, Advocate, for the petitioner. .. SATISH KUMAR MITTAL, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. On the asking of the Court, Mr.A.D.S.Sukhija, Advocate, who is present in Court, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties. The main grievance of the petitioner is that the appeal (Annexure P9) filed by him against the order dated 2.2.2009 (Annexure P5) passed by the Managing Director of the respondent-Corporation, whereby an amount of Rs.76,188/- has been ordered to be recovered from the petitioner, is pending before the Appellate Authority along with an application for stay. The prayer of the petitioner is that his application for stay has not been considered and decided so far. Counsel for the petitioner contends that in a similar situation, against the similar impugned order, this Court had disposed of the petition filed by one Avtar Singh with a direction to the Appellate Authority to C.W.P. No.4810 of 2009 -2- dispose of the appeal filed by the said petitioner expeditiously, preferably within a period of six months. She prays that similar order may be passed in case of the petitioner. Counsel for the respondents has no objection. In view of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the Appellate Authority to consider and decide the appeal filed by the petitioner expeditiously, preferably within a period of six months. The Appellate Authority is further directed to consider the application for stay filed by the petitioner. Till the time application for stay is considered, no recovery shall be effected from the petitioner. March 26, 2009 (SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) vkg JUDGE