IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 19112 OF 2008 DATE OF DECISION: July 22, 2009. Parties Name Arvind Kumar ..PETITIONER VERSUS State of Haryana and another ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH PRESENT: Mr. Narender Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Tarunveer Vashishth, Addl. A.G., Haryana, for respondent No. 1. Mr. Sanjay Chauhan, Advocate, for respondent No. 2. JASBIR SINGH, J. (oral) Order. This writ petition has been filed with a prayer that directions be issued to respondent No. 2 to release amount due to the petitioner, who is a civil contractor and to whom work order was issued to do some job. He has completed the same in the year 2006. Some payment was released, however, security amount and the remaining payment for the completed job are not being released. Hence this writ petition. Counsel for the Municipal Corporation has failed to state any ground, as per the terms and conditions of the work order, on the basis of which security amount and remaining payment can be stopped. Nothing has been brought on record to show that work done was defective or it was not CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 19112 OF 2008 -2- executed as per specifications. It has only been said that some Public Interest Litigation is pending regarding the work allotted to the petitioner. Be that as it may, there is no order from any Court to stop payment. If that is so, unless the authorities are competent to detain the amount as per terms and conditions of the contract agreement, with-holding of the same is not justified. Faced with the situation, counsel for the respondent states that the Municipal Corporation, Panchkula, shall release payment in favour of the petitioner within a period of four weeks. In view of this statement, the writ petition is disposed of. It is made clear that in case the Municipal Corporation, Panchkula, fails to make the payment as undertaken, the petitioner shall be entitled to get interest at the rate of 8% per annum from the date the amount had become due till its realization. Copy of the order be given Dasti on payment of usual charges. July 22, 2009 ( Jasbir Singh ) DKC Judge