IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.O.C.P. No.1414 of 2008 Date of Decision : May 07, 2009 Raj Kumar ....Petitioner Versus N.P.S. Aulakh, Director General of Police, Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE T.P.S. MANN Present : Mr. Anil Chawla, Advocate Mr. M.C. Berry, Additional Advocate General, Punjab T.P.S. MANN, J. (Oral) While disposing of the writ petition filed by the petitioner, the Division bench vide order dated May 30, 2008, directed the respondents to take final decision by passing a speaking order on the legal notice submitted earlier by the petitioner within a period of two months from the date of receipt of the order. According to the petitioner, despite the aforementioned order, no speaking order was passed by the respondents on his legal notice and, therefore, he prayed for initiating contempt proceedings against them. Reply has already been filed on behalf of respondent No.2. In para 3 of the same, it stands mentioned that a speaking order has since been passed on 13.3.2009 on the legal notice submitted earlier by the petitioner and a copy of the order has already been delivered to the petitioner free of cost under his proper signatures. The copy of the order has been appended with the C.O.C.P. No.1414 of 2008 -2- reply as Annexure R/2-1. It stands mentioned therein that the petitioner did not deserve for being considered for the post of ASI at this time because he had already availed the benefits of priority. The Department has placed reliance on instructions issued by the Joint Secretary, Home Department, Governmnet of Punjab vide Memo No. 1/07/88-21(I) 40691 dated 29.11.1989 and by DGP, Punjab, Chandigarh vide office endorsement No. 7871-7900/E-3 dated 7.6.1990 that whenever a police officer/official killed during an encounter with extremists, the family member was to be given priority category-wise and according to these instructions, the petitioner was not entitled to be promoted to the post of ASI. Learned counsel for the respondents states that the petitioner is wanting out of turn promotion on compassionate ground to the post of ASI, which cannot be granted in view of the aforementioned instructions. It is, however, stated that as and when the case of the petitioner for the grant of promotion to the post of ASI becomes due, the necessary benefits shall be granted to him. In view of the above, the contempt proceedings are dropped. ( T.P.S. MANN ) May 07, 2009 JUDGE satish