IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 509 (S/S) of 2007 Deena Nath Gautam S/o Punwasi, Assistant Teacher (Arts), Govt. Inter College Sorna Dohari, Vikas Nagar District- Dehradun ------- Petitioner Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal through Secretary, Education Uttarakhand 2. Director Education, Uttarakhand, Dehradun 3. District Education Officer, District Dehradun ------- Respondents Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri S.S. Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Paresh Tripathi, learned Standing Counsel State of Uttarakhand for the respondents. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following relief: 1. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding and directing the respondents to pay the salary of the petitioner from July 2005 to December 2005. 2. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding and directing to respondents to decide the representation of the petitioner pending before them or to permit the petitioner to make fresh representation before the authorities. 3. Issue any other order or direction, which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper under the circumstances of the case. 4. Award cost of the petition in favour of the petitioner. The stand of the petitioner is that he is working as Assistant Teacher (Arts) in Govt. Inter College sorna Dohari Vikas Nagar, District Dehradun, but he has not been paid salary for the period July 2005 to December 2005. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has already moved a representation before the District Education Officer on 10th March, 2007, which is annexed as Annexure 3 to the writ petition. During the course of argument, learned counsel for the petitioner has stated that respondent no. 3 be directed to take decision on the representation of the petitioner for payment of salary for the aforesaid period, i.e., July 2005 to December 2005. The prayer is innocuous. I deem it fit and proper to direct the respondent no. 3 to take decision on the representation of the petitioner dated 10th March, 2007, Annexure 3 to the writ petition in accordance with law within a period of four weeks from the date of production of a certified copy of this order. With this direction, the writ petition is finally disposed of. All the pending applications stand disposed of. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J.) 15.05.2007 VKS