IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5856 of 2010 Date of Decision : March 31, 2010. Madan Lal .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Lajwant Singh Virk, 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 joined the Education Department as a Teacher and thereafter has been promoted as Head Teacher. He belongs to the reserved category of Scheduled Caste. While promoting the petitioner as Head Teacher, the private respondent Nos.4 to 7, namely, Jeet Singh, Shyam Sunder, Raj Pal and Bal Krishan, were also promoted as such alongwith him. It appears that while the private respondents were allowed to join their duties on the date of their promotion i.e. 16.4.2008, the Block Education Officer (Elementary), Ferozepur, permitted the petitioner to join the duty on 17.4.2008. It is the petitioner's case that in the seniority list of Teachers as well as in the `merit list' of Head Teachers, he has ranked senior/higher C.W.P.No .5856 of 2010 2 to the private respondents. However, due to the incidental factor that the petitioner was allowed to join on 17.4.2008 or his juniors-private respondents joined on 16.4.2008, that in the tentative seniority list of Head Teachers, the petitioner has been shown below the private-respondents. Aggrieved, the petitioner has submitted his objections/ representation dated 6.11.2003 (Annexure P-4) but no decision has been taken thereon so far. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner at some length it appears that if the factual pleas taken by the petitioner were to be correct, there is some merit in his claim. However, keeping in view the fact that the representation/objections filed by the petitioner are pending consideration, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent No.2 to consider the objections/ representation submitted by the petitioner against the tentative seniority list and finalise the same by passing a speaking order within a period of two months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. March 31, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE