IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3416 of 2011 Date of Decision : February 25, 2011. Sukhwinder Pal and another .....Petitioners versus Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. .....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Ms.Alka Chatrath, Advocate, for the petitioners. -.- 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 petitioners, who are working as Linemen in the respondent-Corporation, allege that the candidates who are placed in the waiting list against the advertisement of the year 2003 which confines to 172 posts of Junior Engineers-II (Electrical), are sought to be given appointments beyond the advertised posts on the basis of the observations made by the Division Bench of this Court on November 17, 2010 in CWP No.15347 of 2002 (Bupinder Singh Bedi and others versus Punjab State Electricity Board and others) (Annexure P-5). Learned counsel for the petitioners contends that in the light of the Hon'ble Supreme Court decisions in Mukul Saikia and others versus State of Assam and others (2009 (2) RSJ 198 and Rakhi Ray C.W.P.No .3416 of 2011 2 and others versus The High Court of Delhi and others, 2010 (2) RSJ 93, the wait-listed candidates could be given appointment only against the advertised posts, i.e., 172 posts and not beyond that. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioners, I am of the considered view that the above-stated contention raised on behalf of the petitioners deserves to be considered by the respondent-Corporation while deciding the claim of the writ petitioners in CWP No.3110 of 2011 Rachhpal Singh and othes versus Punjab State Power Corporation Limited and another), decided by this Court on 21.2.2011. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the Managing Director of the respondent-Corporation to consider the petitioners' claim also while taking a final decision in the matter. Till then, no appointment out of the wait listed candidates shall be made. Dasti. February 25, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE