IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 2500 of 2009 Date of Decision: February 17 , 2009 Joginder Singh ...... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ...... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ajay Tewari Present: Mr. S.K.Tamak, 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? Ajay Tewari, J. The petitioner was appointed on contract basis as an Accountancy and Auditing Instructor in the Vocational Education Institute, Biana, District Karnal. His services were terminated on 28.02.2007 when a regularly selected candidate joined. The arguments of learned counsel for the petitioner are as follows;- i) The petitioner is a Scheduled Caste candidate and against him a General Category candidate was appointed. ii)That person was also transferred after two days and thereafter the post remained vacant and, therefore, the petitioner has a right to continue on that post. CWP No. 2500 of 2009 -2- He has relied upon a Division Bench Judgment of this Court in CWP No. 5289 of 2007 decided on 24.1.2008, Ashok Kumar and others v. State of Haryana and others. In my opinion the limited right which adhoc/contractual employees have been held to be entitled is that such employees cannot be replaced by similar employees and can only be replaced by regularly selected employees. Had the respondents appointed some other person similarly situated as the petitioner after the transfer of the regular employee the petitioner would have had a case. As matters stand the respondents have not filled up the post at all. In the circumstances no right accrues to the petitioner. Consequently this petition is dismissed. No costs. (AJAY TEWARI) JUDGE February 17 , 2009 sunita,