IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3674 of 2010 Date of Decision : March 30, 2010. Amarjeet Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Yogesh Chaudhary, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.B.S.Chahal, 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) Notice of motion. Mr.B.S.Chahal, DAG, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. In view of the nature of the order which I propose to pass, there is no necessity to seek any counter-reply from the respondents at this stage. The petitioner is working as a Head Constable in the Punjab Police. He impugns the final seniority list of Constables (Operators, Technicians, Messengers & Drivers cadre) issued on 28.8.2009 (Annexure P-14) and also seeks a direction to re-fix his seniority by granting him C.W.P.No .3674 of 2010 2 deemed date of conversion as Constable (Operator) from the date of his initial appointment as Constable (Messenger). The issue raised by the petitioner requires verification of facts from the official record and also an opportunity of personal hearing to those who are likely to be effected. 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), this court has constituted an Officers' Committee consisting (i) Shri Parag Jain, IPS, IGP/Head Quarters, Punjab Police; (ii) Smt.Gurpreet Kaur Deo, IPS, DIG, Administration, Punab Police Headquarters; and (iii) Shri M.S.Gill, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, to consider and redress the grievances of the police personnel like the petitioners in this writ petition. In my considered view, the claim put forth by the petitioner can also be effectively gone into by the Officer's Committee in a time bound manner and after personal hearing to all concerned, including those who are likely to be affected if the petitioner's claim is accepted. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to approach the aforesaid Officers' Committee preferably within a period of one month from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order alongwith copies of this order as well as the writ petition. The Officers' Committee shall thereafter take an appropriate decision thereon within a period of four months from the date of receiving the petitioner's claim. C.W.P.No .3674 of 2010 3 Needless to say that if the Officers' Committee recommends in favour of the petitioner, the Competent Authority shall comply with the recommendations unless disagrees for the reasons to be assigned in writing. Dasti. March 30, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE