CWP No.8398 of 2009 : 1: In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. Date of decision: 28.05.2009 Satish Kumar Vs. District and Sessions Judge, Gurdaspur CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI Present: Mr.RK Arya, Advocate,for the petitioner. Mr.BS Chahal, DAG, Punjab. -- PERMOD KOHLI, J. (Oral Notice of motion. At this stage, Mr. BS Chahal, D.A.G.,Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. The petitioner was working as Steno-typist. He was promoted as Stenographer on 10.12.2001 after clearing the English Short-hand test but later reverted as Steno-typist vide order dated 27.02.2003 on account of non availability of post of Stenographer. He was again promoted vide order dated 26.08.2004 to be reverted again vide order dated 28.11.2005 for the same reason. It is stated that now the post of Stenographer is lying vacant for the last 5 months and the petitioner is eligible candidate for promotion to the said post. The petitioner also made representation dated 07.03.2009, Annexure P-6, but the respondents have not conducted any test nor considered the petitioner for promotion. In view of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the competent authority to fill up the post of Stenographer, if the same is lying vacant by according consideration to all eligble candidates including the petitioner. Let the process be completed within a period of CWP No.8398 of 2009 : 2: four months from the date a certified copy of this order is made available to the competent authority. 28.05.2009. (PERMOD KOHLI) BLS JUEGE