IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 13982 of 2011 Date of decision : 03.08.2011 Daulat Ram ......Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. Jitender Dadwal, Advocate for Mr. V.K. Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner **** RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) The petitioner is seeking issuance of writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the order dated 12.10.2006 (Annexure P-3) passed by respondent No. 3, vide which the two annual increments of the petitioner were stopped with cumulative effect and the order dated 29.05.2007 (Annexure P-5) passed by respondent No. 2 in appeal Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that against the orders (Annexures P-3 and P-5) passed by respondent Nos. 2 and 3, the petitioner filed a departmental appeal on 26.06.2007 before respondent No. 1 which has not been decided by respondent No. 1 till date (Annexure P-6). In view of the above facts, this petition is diposed of by giving a direction to respondent No. 1 to decide the departmental appeal (Annexure P- 6) of the petitioner within a period of four months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. August 03, 2011 (RITU BAHRI) G.Arora JUDGE