IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 18162 of 2009 Narender Singh and others .....Petitioners VERSUS Union of India and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH Present: Mr. S.S. Dinarpur, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. S.S. Sandhu, Advocate for Union of India. Mr. S.S. Patter, DAG, Haryana for the State. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioners have approached this Court with the grievance that the de-addiction center has been closed, which has lead to termination of their services where they had worked for nearly 10 to 12 years. In response to the notice, the respondents have taken a stand that the de-addiction center was being run on the basis of grant received from the Central Government. Since the grant was not received, the center was closed. The Central Government has now filed the reply to say that the grant has been released. This fact is not in dispute. The reason for which the center was closed, thus, no more remains in existence. It is entirely for the Deputy Commissioner to consider if he would like to run the de-addiction center under the aegis of Red Cross once he had received the grant. Civil Writ Petition No. 18162 of 2009 -2- In case, the decision is taken to run the de-addiction center the Deputy Commissioner/competent authority would also take a decision in regard to the re-employing the petitioners, who had worked with the Red Cross for this purpose for a sufficient number of years. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of in the light of above directions. March 23, 2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) rts JUDGE