IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2166 of 2008 Date of Decision: 14.2.2008 Sandeep Dhanda and another Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Shri J.S.Chahal, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) The petitioners were working as Clerks in department of Agriculture, State of Haryana. They along with other employees were declared surplus, as per Policy of the State government, they were transferred and absorbed in the Jail department. In this writ petition, it is their grievance that when their service was transferred to Jail department, juniors to them were retained in the Agriculture department. To say so, reference has been made to document Annexure P/1. It has further been averred that the employees, who were shown at Sr.No.345, 346 and 347 in the seniority list, they were retained in service by the Agriculture department and by doing so, pick and choose policy has been adopted by the authority concerned. Counsel further states that on a representation made, one junior person, namely, Surinder Kumar respondent No.5 was retained in the service of Agriculture department. Civil Writ Petition No.2166 of 2008 At the time of arguments, it was brought to our notice that by stating their grievance, the petitioners have already sent representations dated 5.9.2007 (Annexure P/6 and P/7) which are still pending. In view of facts of this case, without expressing any opinion on merits, we dispose of this writ petition by issuing directions to respondent No.2 to take note and decide representations filed by the petitioners, as per law, by passing a speaking order. Needful be done within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. While deciding their representations, respondent No.2 is directed to specify the reasons as to why the juniors have been retained in the parent department. (Jasbir Singh) Judge February 14, 2008 (Jaswant Singh) gk Judge 2