IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 12596 of 2009 DATE OF DECISION : 19.08.2009 Smt. Sarla Kajal .... PETITIONER Versus Union of India and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. Varun Gupta, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner was appointed as Hindi Teacher in Haryana High School, Panchkula (respondent No.4) on 3.7.1996 and worked as such till 3.10.1997. She again joined the respondent No.4 school as T.G.T. Hindi from 1.9.1998 and was retrenched on 30.3.2007. It is the case of the petitioner that on her retrenchment, her Provident Fund was not released to her by the respondent No.4 school. In this regard, a complaint dated 11.2.2008 was filed by the petitioner before the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Karnal (respondent No.2), copy of which has been annexed with the petition as Annexure P-3. It is further case of the petitioner that at one point of time, respondent No.2 asked for certain information and documents, which were supplied, but in CWP No. 12596 of 2009 -2- spite of that, till date, no decision has been taken on the said complaint and no direction has been issued to respondent No.4 school to release the amount of Provident Fund to the petitioner. Counsel states that at this stage, the petitioner will be satisfied if a direction is issued to respondent No.2 to take a decision on the said complaint and issue appropriate direction to the respondent No.4 school in accordance with law, within a reasonable time. In view of the above, without issuing notice of motion as it will un-necessary delay the matter, this petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2 to consider and decide the said complaint dated 11.2.2008 (Annexure P-3) in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of three months. August 19, 2009 ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) ndj JUDGE