CWP No.4115 of 2002 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision : 27.04.2009 1. CWP No.4115 of 2002 Baljit Singh and others Vs. State of Haryana and others 2. CWP No.15531 of 2006 Kulbir Singh Verma Vs. State of Haryana 3. CWP No.20613 of 2006 Hari Dev Kamboj and another Vs. State of Haryana and others 4.. CWP No.15954 of 2006 Ram Saran Kalsi Vs. State of Haryana 5. CWP No.15956 of 2006 Yunus Khan Vs. State of Haryana 6. CWP No.16063 of 2006 Narinder Kumar Dahiya Vs. State of Haryana 7. CWP No.16552 of 2005 Hardayal Sharma and another Vs. State of Haryana and another 8. CWP No.16638 of 2005 Balraj and others Vs. State of Haryana and another 9. CWP No.16659 of 2006 Idrish Mohammed Vs. State of Haryana 10. CWP No.16729 of 2005 Davinder Kumar Vs. State of Haryana and others 11. CWP No.16755 of 2005 Kailash Chand Mittal and others Vs. State of Haryana and others CWP No.4115 of 2002 -2- 12. CWP No.16841 of 2006 Ravinder Mohan and another Vs. State of Haryana and others 13. CWP No.16860 of 2005 Puran Lal and another Vs. State of Haryana and others 14. CWP No.16942 of 2005 Pardeep Kumar Vs. State of Haryana and others 15. CWP No.17055 of 2006 Nooruddin and others Vs. State of Haryana and others 16. CWP No.17070 of 2006 Pardeep Kumar Vs. State of Haryana and others 17. CWP No.17077 of 2005 Harish Kumar Gupta Vs. State of Haryana 18. CWP No.17203 of 2005 Nooruddin and others Vs. State of Haryana and others 19. CWP No.17303 of 2005 Ravinder Mohan and another Vs. State of Haryana and others 20. CWP No.17563 of 2005 Hari Dev Kamboj and another Vs. State of Haryana and others 21. CWP No.15565 of 2006 Dharamvir Singh Dahiya Vs. State of Haryana 22. CWP No.16861 of 2005 Dharambir Singh and others Vs. State of Haryana and others CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY TEWARI Present:- Mr. R. K. Malik, Sr. Advocate with Mr. P. K. Rohilla, Advocate for the petitioner(s). CWP No.4115 of 2002 -3- Mr. D. S. Patwalia with Mr. Sumeet Sheokand, Advocate for the petitioner(s). Mr. Vijay Pal, Advocate for the petitioner(s) Mr. H. S. Sra, Addl. A. G., Haryana. Mr. Ramesh Hooda, Advocate for respondents No.14 and 15. AJAY TEWARI J. (ORAL) The controversy in this bunch of petitions relates to fixation of seniority of JE/SDO/X.EN in the Development and Panchayat Department. It is not disputed that the matter initially came to the Court in CWP No.15928 of 1999 titled as Mast Ram and others v. State of Haryana and others decided on 7.3.2001 and a Division Bench of this Court held as follows:- “We are in full agreement with the aforesaid view point, it must, therefore, follow and we have no hesitation in holding that before January, 1996 the posts that fell vacant to the category of Diploma Holder Junior Engineer must be given to them. Thereafter, it the posts fell vacant, the same be given as per the new Rules. The exercise in this regard should be done within four months”. Subject to aforesaid, the writ petition is disposed of.” It is stated that thereafter in another case bearing CWP No.17681 of 2004 Zile Singh V. State of Haryana and others this direction was reiterated. Today, learned Addl. Advocate General has stated CWP No.4115 of 2002 -4- that yet in another case in CWP No.17621 of 2007 titled as Sohan Singh v. State of Haryana decided on 16.12.2008 another Division Bench of this Court had directed the respondent to reframe the seniority list. Mr. H. S. Sra, Addl. A. G., Haryana has fairly stated that State will now reframe the entire seniority list after inviting objections from all concerned officials and by following the principle of old vacancies old rules, new vacancies new rules. Learned counsel for the petitioners have no objection to this course of action. The only caveat made by learned counsel for the petitioners is that the whole exercise should be completed within a reasonable time and all objections of all concerned persons should be considered. Mr. H. S. Sra, Addl. A. G., Haryana states that the whole exercise will be completed within six months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. These petitions are disposed of with the direction to the respondents to finalize the seniority of JE/SDO/X.EN within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order after inviting and considering all objections of all concerned persons. It is further stated that no reversion shall be made till the final order is passed. A photocopy of this order be placed on the connected files. ( AJAY TEWARI ) April 27, 2009 JUDGE ashish