IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 14436 OF 2005 DATE OF DECISION: January 18, 2008 Parties Name Bhagwan Singh ..PETITIONER VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH PRESENT: Mr. N.K.Joshi, Advocate, with Mr. Hemraj Bhardwaj, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr. D.A.G., Haryana; JASBIR SINGH, J. (oral) Order. In this writ petition, it is grievance of the petitioner that respondent No. 3, who was junior to him, has arbitrarily been posted as Divisional Forest Officer, whereas his claim has wrongly been ignored. During arguments, it was brought to our notice that respondent No. 3 has since retired from service. In view of this, we are of the view that no grouse of the petitioner remains so far as his objection to the posting of respondent No. 3 was concerned. It is further contention of counsel for the petitioner that some officer, junior to him in the Haryana Forest Service cadre, was given higher post of Divisional Forest Officer (ex-cadre post) by ignoring his seniority. Without expressing any opinion on merits of the case, we dispose of this writ petition by giving liberty to the petitioner to move an CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 14436 OF 2005 -2- application putting up his claim for the higher post, as and when it becomes available, and we are hopeful that keeping in view his seniority, the authorities will consider his claim in a very sympathetic manner. ( Jasbir Singh ) Judge ( Jaswant Singh) January 18, 2008. Judge DKC