IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5312 of 2010 Date of Decision : March 29, 2010. Narender Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Ranjit Sharma and Mr.S.S.Sodhi, Advocates, 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 an Executive Clerk working in Police Department at Tarn-Taran. He is aggrieved at the order dated 16.7.2008 (Annexure P-7) whereby his claim for promotion to the post of Head Constable from the date when his alleged juniors, namely, the private respondents have been promoted, has been turned down by the third respondent. It may be noticed here that vide an order dated 1.5.2008 passed in Civil Writ Petition No.7121 of 2008 (Narender Singh versus State of Punjab and others) this Court had directed the Inspector General of Police, Boarder Range, Amritsar, to decide the claim of the petitioner. Instead, his junior has decided the same vide the impugned order dated C.W.P.No .5312 of 2010 2 16.7.2008. Meanwhile, this Court has constituted another 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, 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. Accordingly, the claim of the petitioner is relegated to the said Officers' Committee who shall decide the same independently, ignoring and over-looking the order passed by the DIG, Border Range, Amritsar. The Officers' Committee shall hear both the parties, if so required, and then decide the petitioner's claim within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Needless to say that if the Committee recommends in favour of the petitioner, the same shall be complied with by the Competent Authority immediately unless it disagrees for the reasons to be assigned in writing. Dasti. March 29, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE