IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.15039 of 2011 Date of Decision : August 17, 2011. Shelly Diwan and others .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Vivek Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, DAG, Punjab. -.- 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) Notice of motion. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to seek any counter-reply from the respondents at this stage. The petitioners who are working as Part Time Lecturers in Government College, Malerkotla seek a direction to the respondents to grant them the benefit of maternity leave and accordingly release their salary for the period they are said to have availed the maternity leave. CWP No.15039 of 2011 [2] During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad idem that the controversy involved in this writ petition stands settled in favour of the petitioners by a decision of this Court dated 29.4.2009 passed in CWP No.16711 of 2007 (Sudha Rani and others versus State of Punjab and others). The present writ petition is accordingly disposed of in terms of Sudha Rani's case (supra). Dasti. August 17, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE