C.W.P. No.1040 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No.1040 of 2009 Decided on: 5-05-2009 Gurdip Singh ....Petitioner VERSUS Punjab & Sind Bank, New Delhi and another. ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL. Present:-Mr. Pankaj Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. I.P. Singh, Advocate, for the respondents. SATISH KUMAR MITTAL,J(Oral). The petitioners, who voluntarily retired from the service of the Punjab & Sind Bank, Chandigarh,on 28.2.2001, has filed the instant petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuing directions to the respondents to calculate, grant and release the pensionary benefits to the petitioner as per Regulation 29(5) of the Punjab & Sind Bank (Employees) Pension Regulations, 1995. C.W.P. No.1040 of 2009 -2- It is the case of the petitioner that a similarly situated employee of the Punjab & Sind Bank has been granted the same benefit by a Division Bench of this Court in C.W.P.No.2966 of 2003,decided on 12.12.2006(Ranbir Singh and others Vs. Punjab & Sind Bank and another). Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that the said judgment has been upheld by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Bank of India & anr. Vs. K. Mohandas & Ors., JT 2009(5) SC 247. Learned counsel for the respondents does not dispute the aforesaid factual position and states that the petitioner will also be released the pensionary benefits in terms of the aforesaid judgment within a period of one and a half month from today. In view of the said statement made by learned counsel for the respondents, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to release the pensionary benefits to the petitioner within a period of one and a half month from today. Disposed of in above terms. 5th May, 2009. (SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) Monika JUDGE