IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11128 of 2010 Date of Decision : July 01, 2010. Assistant Mahender Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Haryana and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Sat Narain Yadav, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner is serving as an Assistant in the Haryana Police. Vide the impugned order dated 4.3.2010 (Annexure P-3), he has been asked to deposit the penal rent for the Government quarter which allegedly remained in his unauthorised occupation from 13.10.2009 to 28.2.2010. The above-stated order is said to have been passed without affording an opportunity of hearing or the show cause notice to the petitioner. Aggrieved, he has represented before the Director General of Police, Haryana vide representation dated 2.4.2010 (Annexure P-5) which has been forwarded by the Inspector General of Police, South Range, Headquarters, Rewari on the same date. The Director General of Police, Haryana, also vide his memo dated 9.4.2010 (Annexure P-6) sought the C.W.P.No .11128 of 2010 2 comments of the Commissioner of Police, Faridabad, but the final decision, if any, taken has not been communicated to the petitioner. In these circumstances when the petitioner has already approached the higher authorities and the matter is under active consideration of the Head of the Department, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the Director General of Police, Haryana to dispose of the petitioner's representation by passing a speaking order and after considering his request sympathetically at the earliest possible and preferably within a period of two months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. During the pendency of the representation of the petitioner, the arrears of penal rent shall not be recovered from him. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. July 01, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE