IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.12674 of 2010 Date of Decision : July 21, 2010. Gurbachan Lal Saluja .....Petitioner versus Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.I.P.S.Kohli, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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) The petitioner is a retired Assistant Engineer of the erstwhile Punjab State Electricity Board. He seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to remove the anomaly in fixation of his pension and refix the same so as to bring it at par with Gurbhajan Singh Kalra who has also retired from the post of Assistant Engineer alongwith the petitioner w.e.f. 31.10.2005. The petitioner's grievance is that both the petitioner and above named Gurbhajan Singh Kalra, were appointed as Linemen in the Board in June and March, 1969, respectively and both were promoted together as Line Superintendent, Junior Engineers and then as Assistant Engineers on the same dates. Both of them have retired also on the same date. According to the petitioner, Gurbhajan Singh Kalra is getting higher C.W.P.No .12674 of 2010 2 pension as compared to the petitioner and thus, there exists anomaly in the fixation of pension which is liable to be removed. In this regard, the petitioner is said to have served the respondents with a legal notice dated 9.6.2010 (Annexure P-3) to which there is no response so far. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and considering the nature of relief sought in this writ petition, however, without expressing any views on the merits of the petitioner's claim, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the same with a direction to the respondents to take cognizance of the afore-stated legal notice served on behalf of the petitioner and dispose of the same by passing a speaking order preferably within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. July 21, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE