IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 17908 of 2010 Date of Decision: 22.09.2011 Gurmeet Kaur ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT Present : Mr. R.K.Arora, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. B.S.Chahal, DAG, Punjab for respondents No.1 to 6. Mr. R.C.Kapoor, Advocate, for respondent No. 7. **** SURYA KANT, J.(Oral) Petitioner seeks a direction for the release of the gratuity of her deceased husband which has been withheld on the plea that the house building loan advanced to the deceased employee has not been repaid. During the course of hearing and with a view to make out a case of discrimination, learned counsel for the petitioner relies upon documents dated 06.10.2007, 15.12.2010 and 14.6.2011 (Annexures P-13 to P-15) whereby the house building loan advanced to the similarly placed deceased employee (Amrit Lal Jain) has been written off. It appears that the case of the petitioner also requires consideration on the analogy of late Amrit Lal Jain, Senior Assistant. CWP No. 17908 of 2010 [2]\ The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the respondents to reconsider the petitioner's request for writing off the house building loan advanced to her deceased husband on the analogy of Amrit Lal Jain. The claim of the petitioner shall be considered within two months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order and in the event of acceptance of her request, withheld amount shall be released to the petitioner within one month thereafter. Similarly and subject to the petitioner's entitlement for other terminal benefits like arrears of pay/pension, gratuity in excess to the loan amount which is yet to be written off, be released meanwhile. The amount, if any, already recovered from the deceased husband, however, shall be refunded to the petitioner in the light of the decision to be taken by the respondents. Dasti. 22.09.2011 (SURYA KANT) 'ravinder' JUDGE