IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.10970 of 2009 **** Anil Kumar and others Vs. State of Haryana and others Present: Mr. Rajbir Sehrawat, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr.DAG, Haryana, for the State. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. (ORAL) The petitioners have approached this Court with a grievance that their juniors have been promoted as Hindi Teachers and their seniority has been ignored while carrying out these promotions. Earlier the State counsel had pointed out that the issue had been taken up to the Supreme Court, where directions were issued for holding enquiry by C.B.I. It was accordingly pleaded that further action to promote the petitioners would follow once the issue is finally settled by the Hon'ble Apex Court. The case was adjourned to enable the State counsel to produce the order passed by the Supreme Court to understand the nature of the directions issued. Today, the State counsel points out that the Government, in the meantime, has taken a decision to consider all J.B.T Teachers eligible for promotion, who have completed three years service and all such persons would be considered eligible for promotion to the posts of Hindi Teachers. In view of the statement as made by the State counsel, counsel for the petitioner says that the present writ petition can be Civil Writ Petition No.10970 of 2009 :{ 2 }: disposed of with a direction to the State to consider the case of the petitioners for promotion within some time bound period. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the respondent-State to consider the case of the petitioners for promotion in terms of the eligibility criteria laid down within a period of four months from the date of receipt of copy of this order. November 10, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE