CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.5461 OF 2010 (O&M) :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 HC Ajay Kumar and others .....Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. Ravi Partap Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr.DAG, Haryana, for the State. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. Fifty two Head Constables belonging to IInd Indian Reserved Battalion have filed this writ petition for directing the respondents to relieve the petitioners from Indian Reserved Battalion, where they had been sent for three years and would pray for their repatriation to the parent Unit. As can be seen, the petitioners have been sent to serve in the I.R.B. Battalion for three years after obtaining their willingness. Having been so sent, the petitioners have continued to serve in I.R.B. Battalion and apparently would not have CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.5461 OF 2010 (O&M) :{ 2 }: any right to seek the direction as prayed for in the petition. The justification offered in the reply would further bring out the unjust nature of the prayer made in the petition. It is pointed out that Indian Reserved Battalion is a young force and Constables serving therein were not eligible to appear in B-1 Test for promotion as Head Constables. The Force had become operational and was required to be deployed for law and order duties in the State of Haryana and outside the State as well. There was requirement of Head Constables to provide leadership/command to the Constables. The Director General of Police being competent to issue such instructions had filled up the vacant posts of Head Constables in the Indian Reserved Battalion. The willingness of such Head Constables to serve in the Indian Reserved Battalion for three years period extendable upto five years was sought to induct their names for B-1 Test for promotion. The petitioners, thus, can not now make a prayer as contained in the writ petition. As per the provisions of the Punjab Police Rules, every police officer is liable to serve at any place whether within or outside the State and in any Organisation under the Central Government on being ordered to do so by the appointing authority. It is clarified that the seniority of the petitioner is not going to be effected in any manner as their lien had been maintained in the parent Units and there has been no pecuniary loss to the petitioners. The deployment of the petitioners obviously is at the call of the Nation and the claim, being unjustified, deserves to be rejected. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed. September 22, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE