IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.17307 of 2009 Date of Decision : February 26, 2010. Satish Kumar Sachdeva and others .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Ranjivan Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.B.S.Chahal, DAG, Punjab. -.- 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? --- ORDER Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioners are working as Multi-purpose Health Workers in the Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Punjab. They seek a mandamus to direct the respondents for release of their monthly salaries not paid to them from the last several months. Upon notice of motion, the respondents have filed their counter-reply stating that most of the petitioners have been paid salaries upto the month of October, 2009. Earlier also, some similarly situated employees had to approach this Court in CWP No.15220 of 2003 (Supra etc. versus State of C.W.P.No. 17307 of 2009 2 Punjab etc.), decided on 5.12.2003 (Annexure P-2) which was decided with a direction to the respondents to release salary to all the petitioners and that they shall be paid salary regularly in future also. A cost of Rs.1000/- was also awarded to each of the petitioners. The respondents have still forced the petitioners to approach this Court as no salary has been paid to them w.e.f. August/September, 2009. In this view of the matter, I deem it appropriate to direct the respondents to release the salary of the petitioners from the months August/September, 2009, if not already released, within a period of two months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order and thereafter they shall be paid their monthly salary regularly. All the petitioners shall be entitled to costs of Rs.1000/- each which shall be recoverable from the officials responsible for the delay in payment of salary to the petitioners. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. 26-02-2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE