CWP No. 8168 of 1989 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No. 8168 of 1989 Date of decision 4 .3.2009 Lakhbir Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ... Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR Present: Mr. JS Toor ,Advocate for the petitioner Ms. Sudeepti Sharma, DAG Pb. 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 ? M.M.KUMAR, J. The petitioners have approached this Court with a prayer for claiming House Rent Allowance if they are living within 8 kms. radius of the city area. In that regard reliance has been placed on instructions dated 11.9.1965 (P.1) and 15.3.1973 (P.2) Mr. J.S.Toor, learned counsel for the petitioner has at the outset brought to the notice of the Court a Division Bench judgement of this Court rendered in the case of Pawan Kumar Goyal and others v. State of Punjab (CWP No. 15315 of 1995 decided on 25.8.1998) and other connected writ petitions which were dismissed by clarifying that the financial benefits which have already been granted were not to be recovered back. In view of the above, the instant petition is also disposed of in terms of the Division Bench judgement in Pawan Kumar Goyal's case CWP No. 8168 of 1989 2 (supra) with a direction to the respondents that no recovery be effected from the petitioners, if they have already been paid the House Rent Allowance. (M.M.Kumar ) 4.3.2009 Judge okg