CWP No. 4137 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 4137 of 2009 Date of Decision: March 18, 2009 Krishan Kumar and others ...... Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ...... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ajay Tewari Present: Dr. Balram Gupta, Sr.Advocate with Mr.Shireesh Gupta, Advocate for the petitioners. **** 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 challenge in this petition is to the notice Annexure P-14 whereby according to the petitioners the final seniority list is being proposed to be changed without there being any power in Government to do so. To the objection that it is merely a show cause notice, learned Senior Advocate appearing for the petitioners states that the expressions used in the notice give rise to a reasonable apprehension that the issue regarding the power to change final seniority would not be considered by the Government. In my opinion the interest of justice would be met if the CWP No. 4137 of 2009 2 petitioners are permitted to file preliminary objections regarding competence of the Government to make changes in the final seniority list and a direction be issued to the respondent No.1 to first pass a reasoned order on the said objections. It is made clear that these preliminary objections would not preclude the petitioners from filing objections on merit in case their preliminary objections do not meet with success. In the circumstances this writ petition is disposed of with liberty to the petitioners to file their preliminary objections within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. Respondent No.1 is directed to first decide these preliminary objections before taking any further step in the matter. It is stated that the hearing is fixed for tomorrow i.e. 19.03.2009. In the circumstances let a copy of this order be given dasti to learned counsel for the petitioners under the signatures of the Court Secretary (AJAY TEWARI) JUDGE March 18, 2009 sunita