IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 11617 of 2007 Date of Decision: 05.01.2011 Surinder Singh Comboz ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present : Mr. Manmohan, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Rupinder Khosla, Addl. A.G. Punjab, for respondent No.1. Mr. Amit Sethi, Advocate, for respondents No. 2 and 3. **** RANJAN GOGOI, A.C.J.(Oral) The essence of relief sought in the writ petition is for a direction for consideration of the case of the petitioner for promotion to the post of Superintending Engineer. While the writ petition remained pending, the petitioner retired in the year 2007. Infact, the writ petition was filed a day prior to his retirement i.e. on 30.07.2007. Be that as it may, from the reply filed by the Punjab State Tubewell Corporation Ltd. dated 11.10.2007, it appears that though the petitioner had the qualifying service for consideration for promotion to the post of Superintending Engineer, there was no vacant post available, against which his case for promotion could be CWP No. 11617 of 2007 [2] considered. The details of the posts available and the persons senior to the petitioner who had been promoted to the post of Superintending Engineer, are stated in para No.2 of the aforesaid reply. In the aforesaid facts, no direction for consideration of the case of the petitioner for notional promotion and consequential benefits, which has been prayed for at the hearing, can be issued by the Court. The writ petition, therefore, is found without any merit and substance. It is accordingly dismissed. No costs. (RANJAN GOGOI) ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE (AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH) 05.01.2011 JUDGE 'ravinder'