Civil Writ Petition No. 11642 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 11642 of 2010 Date of decision:- 09.08.2011 Sukhdev Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present:- Mr. D.P.S. Tung, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Praveen Chander Goyal, Addl.A.G. Punjab. RITU BAHRI J.(Oral) This petition under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to regularize the service of the petitioners as Watchman as they have served from almost 15 years. The respondents in the reply have stated that there are only 213 sanctioned posts of regular Chowkidars and these are filled up and there is no regular vacant post available to consider the claim of the petitioners. Reference has been made to an order passed by this Court on dated 06.4.2010 in CWP No.7229 of 2009 titled 'Jamuna Das versus Punjab State', whereby in similar facts directions have been given to regularise the service of the petitioners by creating additional posts. As per the date of appointment the petitioners have joined services in the year 1993, 1994 and 1996 respectively. Civil Writ Petition No. 11642 of 2010 -2- This writ petition is being disposed of by giving direction to the respondents to consider the case of of the petitioners for regular service, in case any juniors to the petitioners, who were appointed prior to them and have regularized. August 09, 2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Vijay Asija JUDGE