IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 3853 of 2011 Date of Decision: 23.08.2011 Jyoti Verma ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present : Mr. Kapil Kakkar, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Sudeepti Sharma, DAG, Punjab for the respondents. **** SURYA KANT .J.(Oral) The petitioner was allowed to do M.A. as a private candidate for which due permission was granted for M.A. Ist year. She has been denied to join the promotional post on the plea that no permission was sought or accorded for doing M.A. IInd year. The petitioner though has been promoted as Lecturer but has not been issued posting order. The petitioner has on the other hand placed on record a copy of letter dated 2.2.2011 (Annexure P-10) whereby ex- post-facto approval for doing M.A. Economics IInd year in Session 1999-2000 from Panjab University has been granted. That being so, the very basis of denying relieving or joining to the petitioner as Lecturer has disappeared. CWP No. 3853 of 2011 [2] No reply has been filed by the respondents despite availing sufficient opportunities. Keeping in view the nature of relief and the fact that the respondents' view point is reflected in the order Annexure P-5, I do not deem it necessary to grant further time to the respondents to file reply. Writ petition is accordingly allowed with a direction to the respondents to relieve the petitioner from her present duties to enable her to join as Lecturer at new place of posting within a period of one week from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. Dasti. (SURYA KANT) 23.08.2011 JUDGE 'ravinder'