IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1294 of 2008 Date of Decision: 29.1.2008 Ramesh chander Gautam Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Shri J.S.Hooda, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) The petitioner is working as Lecturer in Sanskrit. He is seeking promotion to the post of Head Master. It is his contention that qualification of Language Teacher Course is equivalent to O.T. and as such, he is entitled to be considered for the next higher post. To say so, reliance has been placed on documents (Annexures P/2 and P/4). During arguments, it transpires that by stating his grievance, the petitioner has already sent a legal notice (Annexure P/6), which is still pending undecided. In view of facts of this case, without expressing any opinion on merits, we dispose of this writ petition by issuing directions to respondent No.3 to take note and decide legal notice (Annexure P/6) of the petitioner, as per law, by passing a speaking order. Needful be done within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. (Jasbir Singh) Judge January 29, 2008 (Jaswant Singh) Civil Writ Petition No.1294 of 2008 gk Judge 2