IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.20539 of 2006 Date of Decision : April 19, 2010. Naginder Singh Rana .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.R.K.Dadwal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms.Charu Tuli, Senior DAG, Punjab. -.- 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 seeks quashing of the order dated 7.8.2006 (Annexure P-4) passed by the Director General of Police, Punjab, whereby his claim for assigning the deemed date of promotion in the rank of Sub- Inspector and consequential seniority in the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police has been turned down. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the contentions raised on behalf of the petitioner may be gone into by the Officers Committee consisting (i) Shri Parag Jain, IPS, IGP/Head Quarters, Punjab Police; (ii) Smt.Gurpreet Kaur Deo, IPS, DIG, Administration, Punjab Police Headquarters; and (iii) Shri M.S.Gill, C.W.P.No .20539 of 2006 2 Additional Advocate General, Punjab, constituted by this Court vide an order dated 4.3.2010 passed in C.W.P.No.566 of 2010 (Ranjit Singh and others versus State of Punjab and others), to consider and redress the grievances of the police personnel like the petitioner in this writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the aforesaid Officers Committee to consider the claim of the petitioner in accordance with the Rules/Policies as well as the facts pleaded in the writ petition after giving an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioner and take an appropriate decision within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. It is made clear that in case the Committee recommends in favour of the petitioner, the recommendations shall be implemented forthwith by the competent authority unless it disagrees for the reasons to be assigned in writing. Dasti. April 19, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE