IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 14562 of 1991 Date of decision : 26.08.2011 H.C. Dharam Pal and others ...Petitioners Versus The State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH Present: Mr. Vijay Pal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr. DAG, Haryana for the State. RANJIT SINGH J. The petitioners had filed this writ petition in the year 1991 for direction to the respondents to send the petitioners for training to the Intermediate School Course with Batch of July/August to December, 1991 and for protecting their seniority. The writ petition was admitted, to be heard alongwith LPA No. 1180 of 1991. The said LPA has been decided by this Court on 15.09.1992 and it is held as under:- “Such being the position in law, the fact that in the present case, Head Constables junior to the appellants or the petitioners, as the case may be, may have been deputed to the Intermediate School Course out of turn disregarding the claims of their seniors, the mere passing of the course by such persons will not enable them to acquire a status or position in the service over their seniors or seek to be put above their seniors, just on this account. Civil Writ Petition No. 14562 of 1991 -2- We consequently, hereby dispose of this bunch of Letters Patent Appeals and Writ Petitions with these observations and direct that they be given effect to in determining the inter se seniority of the Head Constables concerned. In the circumstances, there will be no order as to costs.” The effect of the changed position of law may have also now to be noticed. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioners in accordance with law and the judgments which have now subsequently been passed. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. August 26, 2011 (RANJIT SINGH) rts JUDGE