IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.8554 of 1996 (O&M) Date of Decision : 10.11.2010 Bakhshish Singh ...... Petitioner Versus The State of Punjab and others ...... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present:- Mr. H.S. Sirohi, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mrs. Rajni Gupta, Addl. A.G. Punjab. **** NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) By filing this petition under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India, Bakhshish Singh has challenged the order dated March 23rd, 1996 (Annexure P/8), passed by the Chief Secretary, Punjab, whereby, four annual grade increments of the petitioner were stopped with cumulative effect. Learned State counsel has stated that per letter dated August 16th, 2010 of Chief Engineer/Canal, Irrigation Works, Punjab, order dated March 23rd, 1996 under challenge was not implemented nor the State proposed to implement the same because the petitioner retired after about 5 months of passing of the impugned order. In view of this, learned counsel for the petitioner has stated that no cause of action survives and the present petition be dismissed as infructuous. Thus, the petition is dismissed as infructuous. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 10.11.2010 som