IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL WPSS No. 428 of 2008 Rajpal Singh Chauhan ………….Petitioner. Versus Union of India and others. .Respondents. Ms. Sangeeta Miyan, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. K.P. Upadhyay, Addl. Chief Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand / respondent no. 3, 4 and 5. None appears for rest of the respondents. 16th March, 2009 Hon’ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J. The case of the petitioner is that he should be allocated to the State of Uttarakhand. During the pendency of this writ petition, the Central Government has already taken a decision allocating the petitioner to State of Uttarakhand. Therefore, as far as the main prayer of the petitioner is concerned, the same stands redressed by the order of the Central Government. Petitioner has further stated that during the pendency of the writ petition, his claim for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer was not considered as the final allocation of the petitioner to the State of Uttarakhand or State of Uttar Pradesh had not been finalized. 2. It is stated that between the appointed date and now many Junior Engineers, who were in fact junior to the petitioner, have been promoted on ad-hoc basis to the post of Assistant Engineer. The petitioner states that he should also be promoted from the date on which juniors to him were promoted to the post of Assistant Engineer. Petitioner has submitted that he has moved several representations dated 11.12.2006, 19.12.2007 and 2 8.4.2008 (contained as Annexure No. 6, 7 and 11 to the writ petition). 3. In case, representations of the petitioner are pending before the respondent no. 4 / Secretary Public Works Department, Dehradun, respondent no. 4 shall look into it and take a decision on that representation as expeditiously as possible. 4. With the aforesaid observations, writ petition is disposed of. (Sudhanshu Dhulia) 16.3.2009 Rathour