IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.17795 of 2011 Date of Decision : September 21, 2011. Krishna Kumari and others .....Petitioners versus The State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.P.S.Khurana, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, 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. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Let three copies of the writ petition be supplied to the learned State counsel during the course of day failing which the order shall be automatically recalled and the writ petition shall be deemed to have been dismissed for non-prosecution. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to seek any counter reply from the respondents at this stage. CWP No.17795 of 2011 [2] The petitioners who are working as JBT Teacher/Head Mistress and S.S.Master (though one of them has since died and represented through his wife-petitioner No.4) in the Education Department, Government of Punjab, seek the higher pay scale in terms of the Government Instructions dated 23.7.1957 and 3.7.1995, according to the qualifications possessed by them. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the controversy involved in this case stands settled by a decision of this Court dated 15.4.2009, rendered in a bunch of writ petitions including CWP No.3931 of 1992 (Baldev Raj Mittal and others versus State of Punjab and others). The writ petition is accordingly disposed of in terms of the afore-stated decision of this Court in Baldev Raj Mittal and others' case (supra). Since the petitioners have approached this Court at a belated stage, it is directed that no arrears of pay shall be paid to them in the event of acceptance of their claim. Dasti. September 21, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE