IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 10200 of 2009 DATE OF DECISION : 14.07.2009 Sawaran Singh and others .... PETITIONERS Versus Pepsu Road Transport Corporation, Patiala and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. Rajan Bansal, Advocate, for the petitioners. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The seven petitioners, who were working on different posts and retired from the services of the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation, Patiala, on various dates, as indicated in Annexure P-1, have filed this petition for issuing directions to the respondents to release the amount of gratuity and the Commuted Value of Pension, along with interest. Undisputedly, claim of petitioners No.1 to 5 is only with regard to the payment of gratuity and the claim of petitioners No.6 and 7 is with regard to the payment of Commuted Value of Pension. As far as petitioners No.1 to 5 are concerned, they have an alternative remedy under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 read with the Payment of Gratuity (Central) Rules, 1972. In view of this alternative CWP No. 10200 of 2009 -2- remedy, counsel for the petitioners states that petitioners No.1 to 5 may be permitted to withdraw this petition with liberty to avail their alternative remedy. Regarding the claim of petitioners No.6 and 7 for the payment of Commuted Value of Pension, they have served a legal notice dated 14.5.2009, copy of which has been annexed as Annexure P-5. It is the case of petitioners No.6 and 7 that the said legal notice has not been decided so far. In view of the above, the petition qua petitioners No.1 to 5 is dismissed as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty, whereas the petition qua petitioners No.6 and 7 is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.3 to consider and decide the legal notice dated 14.5.2009 (Annexure P-5) in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of three months. July 14, 2009 ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) ndj JUDGE