IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5811 of 2010 Date of Decision : March 31, 2010. Harpreet Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.D.K.Bhatti, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.B.S.Chahal, DAG, Punjab. -.- 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) Notice of motion. Mr.B.S.Chahal, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. In view of the nature of the order which I propose to pass, there is no necessity to seek any counter-reply from the respondents at this stage. The petitioner is working as a Sub-Inspector in the Punjab Police. He seeks quashing of the memo dated 17.2.2010 (Annexure P-14) vide which DPC has ignored his case for entry to Promotion List-F (Executive). He also seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to review the Promotion List-F after taking into consideration the Government Instructions dated 25.11.1994 (Annexure P-12) and further to consider his C.W.P.No .5811 of 2010 2 name for entry into the Promotion List-F prepared as on 1.1.2010 (Annexure P-11). During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the contentions raised on behalf of the petitioner can be gone into by the Officers' Committee consisting (i) Shri Parag Jain, IPS, IGP/Head Quarters, Punjab Police; (ii) Smt.Gurpreet Kaur Deo, IPS, DIG, Administration, Punjab Police Headquarters; and (iii) Shri M.S.Gill, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, constituted by this Court vide an order dated 4.3.2010 passed in C.W.P.No.566 of 2010 (Ranjit Singh and others versus State of Punjab and others), to consider and redress the grievances of the police personnel like the petitioners in this writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the Officers' Committee to consider the claim of the petitioner in accordance with the Rules/Policies as well as the facts pleaded in the writ petition and take an appropriate decision within a period of one month from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. It is made clear that in case the Committee recommends in favour of the petitioner, the Competent Authority shall comply with the recommendations immediately, unless disagrees for the reasons to be assigned in writing. Dasti. March 31, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE