IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No.3055 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION: MAY 05, 2009 J.C. Arora .....PETITIONER Versus Food Corporation of India and others ....RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL --- Present: Mr.B.R. Gupta, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Hari Pal Verma, Advocate, for the respondents. .. SATISH KUMAR MITTAL, J. (Oral) The petitioner, who has retired from the services of the respondent-Corporation on 31.1.2007 on attaining the age of superannuation, has filed the instant petition for issuing direction to the respondents to release the gratuity along with interest, which has not been released so far. Counsel for the respondents while making reference to the written statement, submits that the case of the petitioner has already been referred to the Zonal Office, which is pending for consideration, and the delay in payment of the gratuity has arisen on account of change of panel year of petitioner as 1987 and 2001 as against the panel year 1976 and 1999. He further, on instructions, states that the claim of the petitioner with regard to gratuity will be finalized within three months and whatsoever C.W.P. No.3055 of 2008 -2- amount is found due, will be released immediately thereafter to the petitioner. In view of the aforesaid statement, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioner within three months and pass the final order in that regard. If the petitioner is not satisfied with the order of gratuity, it will be open for him to challenge the same in accordance with law. May 05, 2009 (SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) vkg JUDGE