CWP No. 17223 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- CWP No. 17223 of 2011 Date of decision: 14.09.2011 Yashpal Sharma ........ Petitioner Versus Financial Commissioner and another .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur -.- Present: Mr. Vaneet Soni, Advocate for the petitioner -.- 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest? Nirmaljit Kaur, J. (Oral) Contends that vide order dated 30.03.2011, the Board in terms of Agenda Item No.157.5, has compulsorily retired the petitioner. Subsequently, order dated 04.04.2011 was passed by the Chairman compulsorily retiring the petitioner. Thereafter, the aforesaid orders have been assailed by the petitioner before respondent No. 1 by way of an appeal dated 02.05.2011. Along with the said appeal, an application for staying the operation of the aforesaid orders was also filed. The same has been placed on record as P4 and P5 respectively. Respondent No. 1 fixed the date of hearing of the appeal as well as the application for stay as 06.06.2011. It is contended that the arguments were heard at length, detailed submissions CWP No. 17223 of 2011 2 were filed. Thereafter, the matter was adjourned on a number of dates i.e. 08.06.2011, 27.06.2011, 01.08.2011, 16.08.2011 and 06.09.2011. However, till date, no order on the application for stay or on the appeal has been passed. In view of the short prayer, the present petition is disposed of with direction to respondent No. 1 to decide the aforesaid application for stay/appeal as expeditiously as possible, preferably within 15 days from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. (Nirmaljit Kaur) Judge 14.09.2011 mohan