CWP No.5095 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. DATE OF DECISION: 24.8.2010 Lal Chand Sharma and others ...Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana & Others …Respondents CORAM HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI PRESENT: Mr.PL Verma, Advocate for the petitioner Mr.RD Sharma, DAG, Haryana Permod Kohli, J. (Oral) Keeping in view the controversy involved in this petition made and with the consent of the counsel for the parties, this petition is disposed of at motion stage. The petitioners belongs to General Category. Petitioners no.1 and 2 were working as Deputy superintendent whereas petitioners no.3 and 4 were working as Assistants. All of them retired from the above posts on attaining the age of superannuation. The grievance of the petitioners is that the juniors under the reserved category were promoted to these posts on account of accelerated promotion. However, on the subsequent promotion CWP No.5095 of 2009 2 of the petitioners on their turn, they were entitled to the fixation of salary at par with the Reserved Category juniors which benefit has been denied to them. Learned counsel for respondents submits that the cases of the petitioners are under consideration. Earlier the petitioners filed CWP No.13719 of 2008 before this Court seeking the relief claimed. The said writ petition was disposed of vide order dated 4.8.2008 with a direction to the respondents to decide the representation of the petitioners. The respondents have passed the impugned order dated 20.2.2009 (Annexure P- 2) rejecting the claim of the petitioners. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for respondents has stated that the claims of the petitioners are under consideration for upgradation of their salary/emoluments at par with the reserved category junior promotees under the respective Cadres. In view of the above statement and in view of the settled proposition of law, this petition is disposed of with a direction to respondents to complete the process of consideration for upgradation of the salary/emoluments of the petitioners at par with their reserved category junior colleagues within a period of two months and the resultant benefit be released within a period of one month thereafter. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE 24.8.2010 MFK