IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP NO.13776 of 2006 DATE OF DECISION: August 31, 2006 Charanjit Kaur and another ….Petitioners VERSUS The State of Punjab and others …..Respondents CORAM:- HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE VINEY MITTAL HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.BHALLA PRESENT: Shri G.L.Bajaj, Advocate for the petitioners. Viney Mittal,J.(Oral). Notice of motion to the respondents. On the asking of Court, Shri B.S.Chahal, AAG, Punjab accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Copies of the writ petition have been supplied to the learned counsel for the respondents. The petitioners have approached this Court for issuance of directions to the respondents to release Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity, Family Pension, GPF, leave encashment and other benefits applicable to the deceased Balbir Singh having GPF account No.PWD/PB/9458. From the perusal of the record, we find that a legal notice dated April 26, 2006 (Annexure P.5) has been issued by the petitioners, which remains unresponded. CWP NO.13776 of 2006 -2- In this view of the matter, without going into the merits of the claim made by the petitioners, we dispose of the present petition with a direction to the Sub Divisional Engineer, Construction Division, PWD (B&R) Malout, Mukatsar, respondent No.3 to take a final decision on the aforesaid legal notice (Annexure P.5) within a period of four months from the date a certified copy of this order is received, by passing a detailed and speaking order. A copy of the order be given dasti on payment of usual charges. (Viney Mittal) Judge August 31,2006 (H.S. Bhalla) KD Judge