IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP. No. 8749 of 2010 Date of Decision: 13.5.2010. Smt. Suman Lata Sharma --Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and another --Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI. Present:- Mr. Ravi Verma, Advocate for the petitioner. *** PERMOD KOHLI.J (ORAL) Notice of motion. Mr. R.S. Kundu, Addl. A.G., Haryana has been asked to accept notice on behalf of respondents-State. Keeping in view the nature of relief claimed and with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, this petition is being disposed of at the motion stage itself. The petitioner was appointed as Lecturer in Economics vide order dated 14.10.1997 (Annexure P-1) pursuant to the directions of this Court in CWP No. 6248 of 1994. Vide another order dated 20.2.2003 the benefit of deemed date of appointment was shifted to 4.2.1994. One Anju Garg was also appointed initially on ad hoc basis vide order dated 4.2.1994 and later regularized from the said date in terms of order dated 21.2.2000. It is alleged that in the seniority list of Lecturers as it stood on 1.4.2005 the name of the petitioner figures at Sr. No. 4298 showing his date of appointment as Lecturer on 14.10.1997, however, the persons appointed on 4.2.1994 have been placed at Sr. Nos. 2599 to 2699. The grievance of the petitioner is that her name should be included in between Sr. No. 2599 to CWP. No. 8749 of 2010 -2- 2699. Petitioner has served a legal notice (Annexure P-5) in this but no decision has been taken thereon till date. It is further submitted that in the meantime the persons who are appointed on 4.2.1994 have been granted the selection grade of Rs. 7500-12000 but the petitioner has been denied the benefit of the selection grade also. This petition has been filed seeking a direction for assigning the appropriate seniority to the petitioner and for grant of selection grade as granted to the persons junior to her. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner would be satisfied, if, respondents are directed to take decision on the legal notice served by the petitioner, referred to above. In view of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent no.2 to take decision on the legal notice served by the petitioner within a period of three months from the date certified copy of this order is served upon the said respondent. Needless to say that in the event the claim of the petitioner is to be rejected, the same shall be by a reasoned and speaking order. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE 13.5.2010. lucky