CWP No. 17039 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- CWP No. 17039 of 2011 Date of decision: 13.09.2011 Hawa Singh ........ Petitioner Versus Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited and others.....Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur -.- Present: Mr. K L Dhingra, Advocate for the petitioner -.- 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest? Nirmaljit Kaur, J. (Oral) The petitioner herein retired on attaining the age of superannuation on 30.04.2011. Inspite of the same, his pension, DCRG, Commutation and other retiral benefits have not been released to the petitioner on the ground that his service book is incomplete. It is stated that all the entries have been recorded in the service book and the said service book is available with the respondents. Reliance is placed on the judgement rendered by the Full Bench of this Court in the case of R S Randhawa Supdg. Engineer (retd.) v. State of Punjab and others 1997 Judicial Reports (Labour and Services ) 451 as well as on the judgement rendered by this Court in the case of Maha Singh Sinhmar v. State of Haryana 1995(1) Recent Services Judgements 643, copies CWP No. 17039 of 2011 2 whereof placed on record as P2 and P3. The petitioner has also represented to the department vide his representations dated 12.06.2011 and 08.08.2011 (P4 and P5) respectively, but no action has been taken thereon till date. In view of the above, the present petition is disposed with direction to the respondents to decide the aforesaid representations (P4 and P5) filed by the petitioner as expeditiously as possible, preferably within one month from the date of receipt of the certified copy of this order. In case, the claim of the petitioner is accepted, the said payment shall be made forthwith. However, it goes without saying that if the claim of the petitioner is to be rejected, the department shall pass a speaking order. Disposed of in the above terms. (Nirmaljit Kaur) Judge 13.09.2011 mohan