IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No.13914 of 2007 DATE OF DECISION: AUGUST 18, 2009 Kali Ram Gupta .....PETITIONER Versus Uttari Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited, Panchkula and others ....RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL --- Present: Mr.J.K. Goel, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Parveen Gupta, Advocate, for the respondents. .. SATISH KUMAR MITTAL, J. (Oral) The petitioner, who has retired as Assistant Engineer on 30.6.2006 from the services of UHBVN, Jind, has filed the instant petition for quashing the order dated 31.7.2007 (Annexure P9), whereby the benefit of grant of Time Scale to the petitioner on the post of Assistant Engineer on completion of five years of service from April, 1992 to April, 1997 has been denied on the ground that a criminal case was pending against him. On April 30, 2009, counsel for the petitioner stated that in the said criminal case, the petitioner was acquitted and even the charge sheet issued by the department was also dropped. Copy of the judgment of acquittal was handed over to the counsel for the respondents, who sought time to verify this fact. Today, Mr. Parveen Gupta, learned counsel for the respondents informs that the matter has been re-considered and the petitioner has been C.W.P. No.13914 of 2007 -2- granted the Time Scale on the post of Assistant Engineer on completion of five years of service from April, 1992 to April, 1997 as well as on completion of twelve years of service from 11.10.1998 to 11.10.2005. He has placed on record a copy of the order dated 13.8.2009 passed by the respondent authorities. He further states that necessary benefit of Time Scale will be released to the petitioner within a period of three months. In view of the above fact, this petition has become infructuous and the same is dismissed as such. August 18, 2009 (SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) vkg JUDGE