IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.16334 of 1989 (O&M) Date of decision:19.04.2011 Santosh Kumari and others ....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and another ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Ms. Alka Chatrath, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. K.S.Sivia, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No. 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No. 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No. ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. By an order dated 13.12.1989, the case was directed to be posted after the disposal of the writ petition in CWP No.3640 of 1989. The prayer in the writ petition is the alleged entitlement of higher scales of pay for the teachers working in various schools and who had obtained higher qualifications. I have seen the judgment in CWP No.3640 of 1989 and the operative portion of the judgment in so far as it is relevant in this case is the following:- “In view of the above, all these writ petitions are disposed of with a direction that all such Civil Writ Petition No.16334 of 1989 (O&M) - 2 - employees/petitioners who had acquired higher qualifications before 19.02.1979, shall be entitled to the benefit of Government instructions dated 23.07.1957 and such employees/petitioners who acquired higher qualification after 19.02.1979 , are not entitled to any relief.” 2. In terms of the said judgment, the petitioners in the above writ petition are also entitled to similar relief of being declared entitled to the benefit of government instruction dated 23.07.1957 for all employees/petitioners, who had obtained higher qualifications before 19.02.1979 and such employees/petitioners, who had acquired higher qualification after 19.02.1979 are not entitled to such relief. 3. The writ petition is disposed of as above. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 19.04.2011 sanjeev