IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.12799 of 2011 Date of Decision : July 21, 2011. Sunil Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Vikas Chatrath, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks a mandamus for his promotion as Station Supervisor Grade-I retrospectively with all the consequential benefits with effect from the date when his juniors were promoted vide order dated 20.9.2006 (Annexure P-1). It is alleged that the petitioner was denied promotion due to pendency of the departmental proceedings against him which have since been quashed by this Court. The petitioner has raised this claim vide a legal notice dated 17.8.2010 (Annexure P-6) followed by a representation dated 27.12.2010 (Annexure P-7) also but the response, if any, is still awaited. CWP No.12799 of 2011 [2] In these circumstances. I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to consider and dispose of the claim of the petitioner as also contained in the aforementioned legal notice, by passing a speaking order in the light of the decision of the Division Bench of this Court dated 7.4.1999 rendered in C.W.P.No.14924 of 1998 (Santosh Kumari Aneja versus Haryana Seeds Development Corporation Limited) (Annexure P-5) as well as the Hon'ble Supreme Court in K.C.Rana versus State of Haryana and others (2003 (2) SCT 685, relied upon by the petitioner. The needful shall be done within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. July 21, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE