IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 7458 of 2011 Date of Decision: 24.08.2011 Madan Lal ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT Present : Mr. R.K.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner Ms. Kavita Arora, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab. **** SURYA KANT .J.(Oral) The petitioner is aggrieved by an order dated 16.12.2010 (Annexure P-4) whereby his claim for promotion from Junior Engineer to the post of Sub Divisional Engineer has been rejected by the Departmental Promotion Committee due to non-fulfillment of the benchmark 'Very Good' as per the Annual Confidential Reports. The petitioner's contention is that the post is required to be filled up by following the criteria of seniority-cum-merit as prescribed in the statutory service rules. Reliance is also placed on a decision of this Court dated 19.04.2010 rendered in Civil Writ Petition No. 1401 of 2007 titled as 'Atinder Kaur V. State of Punjab'. It is also stated that junior to the petitioner placed at Sr. No. 116 in the seniority list has been promoted as against the petitioner who is at Sr. No. 78. CWP No. 7458 of 2011 [2] Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, I am of the considered view that the petitioner's claim for promotion requires reconsideration in accordance with the criteria laid down under the service rules and/or the Government policy read with judgment in Atinder Kaur case (supra). However, no opinion on merits of the petitioner's entitlement is expressed herein. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction that let the petitioner's claim be considered by the Departmental Promotion Committee afresh in the light of the observations made hereinabove as early as possible preferably before the retirement of the petitioner. Dasti. (SURYA KANT) 24.08.2011 JUDGE 'ravinder'