IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA CWP No.8899 of 2010 Date of Decision: September 23, 2011 Joginder Singh Patial ..Petitioner Versus H.P. Ex-Servicemen Corporation and others .. Respondents Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Surjit Singh, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioner : Mr. Amit Singh Chandel, Advocate. For the Respondents : Mr. Bhuvnesh Sharma, Advocate for respondent No.1. __________________________________________ Surjit Singh, Judge (oral) Heard and gone through the record. 2. Petitioner, who has retired from Ex-Servicemen Corporation, is aggrieved by the order, copy Annexure P-9 (dated 19.6.2009), whereby money payable to him, on account of leave encashment at the time of retirement, has been ordered to be withheld. 3. A criminal case was registered against the petitioner, when he was still in service, for embezzling an amount of `2,68,819.24. Challan was filed after completion of investigation and the petitioner was tried. He was acquitted by the trial Court, vide judgment dated 29.5.2006, copy Annexure P-1. It appears that no appeal against that Whet her report ers of t he l ocal papers may be al l owed t o see t he j udgment ? É2É judgment of acquittal was filed. However, the Corporation, impleaded as respondent No.1, initiated departmental action against the petitioner for causing financial loss to it by his alleged act of defalcation and departmental proceedings are stated to be still at enquiry stage. 4. Writ petition is disposed of, with a direction to respondent No.1-Corporation to conclude departmental action, within six months from today, and to take final decision with regard to the claim for leave encashment of the petitioner. September 23, 2011 (ss) (Surjit Singh), J.