IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 7106 of 2010 Date of Decision: 18.5.2010 Harbhajan Singh ....Petitioner. Versus Punjab State Electricity Board and another ...Respondents. CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR MITTAL. PRESENT: Mr. H.S. Kamboj, Advocate for the petitioner. AJAY KUMAR MITTAL, J. Briefly stated, the facts as narrated in the present petition are that the petitioner was working as Superintendent Grade-I in the office of Chief Engineer (SO & C), Punjab State Electricity Board, Patiala (for short “PSEB”) and was promoted as Under Secretary/RE and APDRP, Patiala vide order dated 25.1.2005 (Annexure P-1) and he joined as such. Thereafter, he was promoted to the post of Deputy Secretary (Inquiry) in his own pay scale without any financial benefit vide order dated 6.1.2006 (Annexure P-3) and superannuated on 31.10.2006. The petitioner vide representations, Annexures P-6 and P- 7, has claimed that he should be given salary as Deputy Secretary as had been given to the employees for the year 2006-2007 in view of office order No. 556 dated 22.12.2006. I have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and have perused the record with his assistance. CWP No. 7106 of 2010 -2- The petitioner has approached this Court after more than three years of his superannuation. Even as per the averments in the petition, the respondent had granted the benefit of reducing the period of working as Under Secretary for the year 2004-2005 and again for 2006-2007 and not in the year 2005-2006 when the petitioner was promoted and that the promotion order of the petitioner clearly stipulated that he was promoted as Deputy Secretary in his own pay scale without any financial benefit which was accepted by him. In view of the above, this Court is satisfied that no ground to exercise its jurisdiction under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India is made out. The present writ petition being devoid of merit, is hereby dismissed. May 18, 2010 (AJAY KUMAR MITTAL) gbs JUDGE