IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.7209 of 2010 Date of Decision : April 23, 2010. Sh.Iqbal Singh Sethi .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.R.K.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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 working as a Superintendent Grade-II in the Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Government of Punjab. He seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to firstly promote him as Superintendent Grade-II retrospectively w.e.f. 10.10.2002 on the basis of the ratio system as it used to exist earlier and thereafter promote him as Superintendent Grade-I w.e.f. 29.11.2006 followed by further promotion as Assistant Director/District Food Supplies Controller w.e.f. 4.1.2010. The petitioner claims that pursuant to the representation made by him for the aforesaid reliefs, he was called for personal hearing on 12.4.2006 when he submitted his entire claim but thereafter, no decision C.W.P.No .7209 of 2010 2 has been taken and/or communicated to him. In this regard the petitioner is said to have served the respondents with a legal notice dated 1.2.2010 (Annexure P-8) but there is no response to the same. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and considering the nature of relief sought in this writ petition, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the same with a direction to respondent No.1 to take cognizance of the afore-mentioned legal notice served on behalf of the petitioner and redress the petitioner's grievance by passing a speaking order in accordance with law/Government Policy, preferably within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. April 23, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE