IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.9089 of 2010 Date of Decision : May 18, 2010. Pirthipal Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Sukhdip Singh Brar, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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) The petitioner is serving as a Deputy Superintendent of Police and is presently posted in Police Academy, Phillaur. He seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to promote him as Inspector, Deputy Superintendent of Police and then as a Superintendent of Police retrospectively w.e.f. the years 1989, 1994 and June, 2006 respectively. The facts on record reveal that the petitioner joined the Punjab Police as an Assistant Sub Inspector in the year 1980 and he was promoted as Sub Inspector on 29.10.1985. The petitioner was dismissed from service w.e.f. 5.3.1990. He challenged the order of his dismissal in a Civil Suit which was decreed in his favour on 16.3.1995. On an appeal, the first Appellate Court set-side the said judgment and decree and dismissed the C.W.P.No .9089 of 2010 2 suit of the petitioner. The said judgment was upheld by this Court also in a regular second appeal. Aggrieved, the petitioner preferred Civil Appeal No.5226 of 2004 before the Hon'ble Supreme Court which was allowed and the judgment and decree passed by the trial Court was restored in favour of the petitioner on 19.10.2006. Pursuant thereto, the petitioner has been re-instated in service on 2.2.2007. His grievance is that if there was no illegal dismissal of his service, he would have been promoted as an Inspector in the year 1989, followed by his further promotion as Deputy Superintendent of Police and Superintendent of Police from the due dates. The petitioner has already represented the authorities on 15.1.2010 (Annexure P-5) seeking the above-mentioned relief, but without any response thereto. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and on consideration of the material on record, it appears that the claim of the petitioner is required to be considered 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 petitioner in this writ petition. Consequently, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the afore-mentioned Officers' Committee to consider the claim of the C.W.P.No .9089 of 2010 3 petitioners for retrospective promotion in accordance with the Rules/Policies and dispose of the same by passing a speaking order and affording an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioner, preferably within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Dasti. May 18, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE