HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH **** CWP No.16426 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision: 05.09.2011 **** Jaswant Singh . . . . Petitioner VS. State of Punjab & Ors. . . . . Respondents **** CORAM : HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT **** 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? **** Present: Mr. RK Arora, Advocate for the petitioner **** SURYA KANT J. (ORAL) (1). Notice of motion. Ms. Sudeepti Sharma, learned DAG Punjab accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Having regard to the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no necessity to call upon the respondents to file their reply(ies)/affidavit(s), at this stage. (2). The petitioner’s grievance is that he is not being paid the arrears of salary pursuant to the order dated 24.09.2007 (Annexure P3) granting the benefit of Proficiency Step-up on completion of 8/18 years of service with retrospective effect. The petitioner averred that despite revalidation of the expired bill for a sum of Rs.51228/- vide order dated 16.05.2011 (Annexure P5) issued by the State Government, the office of DPI (Colleges), Punjab is not releasing the CWP No.16426 of 2011.doc - 2 – payment. The above-stated plea appears to be correct in the light of the documents on record. (3). Be that as it may, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to respondents No.2 to 4 to give effect to the Government order dated 16.05.2011 immediately within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order failing which the petitioner shall entitled to interest @ 7% p.a. to be personally recoverable from the official(s)/officer(s) responsible for such delay. (4). The respondents shall also consider other issues, namely, grant of ACP increment and the consequential revised pay- scale to the petitioner and in case he is found entitled, the same be granted from the due date along with consequential benefits. (5). Ordered accordingly. Dasti. 05.09.2011 vishal shonkar (S u r y a K a n t) Judge 2