C.W.P. No.2675 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No.2675 of 2009 Date of decision:-06.7.2011 Raj Kumar and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present:- Mr. Manish Kumar Singla, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Puneet Gupta, Addl.A.G. Punjab. RITU BAHRI J.(Oral) The petitioners have filed this petition under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioners from the date of their appointment. The petitioners have joined the Department of District Food and Supply Controller, Sangrur as Watchmen. The petitioners are seeking regularization of services on the ground that the junior employees to them have since been regularized. The petitioners have rendered 24-25 years of service and are getting regular pay-scale for the last 16 years. Petitioner No.5 is getting the regular pay-scale for the last 11 years. An affidavit has been filed on 5.1.2011 by Narinder Singh, District Controller, Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Sangrur in which it has been stated that there are only 213 sanctioned posts of Chowkidars in the respondent Department and all the sanctioned posts have since been filled. There are 600 posts of Adhoc/Temporary Chowkidars in C.W.P. No.2675 of 2009 -2- the respondent Department and as per the seniority the petitioners Raj Kumar was at Sr. No. 379, Lal Chand at 389, Sat Pal at 397, Nand Lal at 401 and Bhali Ram was at 564. The seniority has been prepared upto 31.3.2009. As per the list, services of these seniority in No. 1 to 26 have since been regularized on the posts falling vacant from 213 regular sanctioned posts of Chowkidars. The services of 19 Adhoc/Temporary Chowkidars were regularized by creating additional 19 posts of Chowkidars by the Finance Department with the condition that these posts will remain upto the death or retirement and automatically finished thereafter. As per seniority there are number of employees who are still senior to the petitioners and are waiting to be regularized in the Department. This writ petition is disposed of by giving liberty to the petitioners to make representation as and when their turn as per seniority for regularization, the representation shall be considered by the Department by passing of speaking order. July 06, 2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Vijay Asija JUDGE