IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.18812 of 2008 Date of Decision : April 06, 2010. Bhagwant Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Ms.Maninder, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.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 is a retired Head Teacher from the Education Department, Government of Punjab. He seeks quashing of the order dated 20.3.2008 (Annexure P-10) whereby the benefit of stepping-up of his pay to bring it at par with his junior, granted to him earlier, has been withdrawn. In their counter-affidavit, the respondents have taken a plea that the pay of the petitioner was erroneously stepped-up as there was no junior in the `same cadre' drawing higher pay than the petitioner. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the controversy involved in this case can be resolved in C.W.P.No .18812 of 2008 2 terms of the order dated 2.3.2010 passed by this Court in CWP No.16323 of 2008 (Smt.Sudarshana Devi and another versus State of Punjab and others). The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the 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 and take an appropriate decision within a period of four months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. In case the Committee makes recommendations in favour of the petitioner, the same shall be implemented by the Competent Authority without any delay unless the Competent Authority disagrees with the Committee for the reasons to be assigned by way of a speaking order to be passed within a period of two months from the date of receiving the Committee's recommendations. However, if the petitioner is dis-satisfied with the decision of the Committee and/or the Competent Authority, he shall be at liberty to seek redressal of his grievances before an appropriate forum. Dasti. April 06, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE