IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.10831 of 2011 Date of Decision : June 03, 2011. Pawan Kumar Mittal .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.S.K.Sharma Budhladawale, 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 who is working as a Sub Divisional Engineer in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sub Division, Sunam, District Sangrur, seeks a mandamus to direct the official-respondents to grant him the ACP Scale on completion of 24 years of service, in view of the Circular dated 27.6.2000 (Annexure P-1). The afore-mentioned claim has been sought by the petitioner vide a representation dated 19.2.2010 (Annexure P-14) followed by a legal notice dated 27.11.2010 (Annexure P-16) but without any response thereto so far. CWP No.10831 of 2011 [2] In these circumstances and without expressing any views on the merits of the petitioner's claim, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent Nos.2 & 3 to consider and dispose of the petitioner's claim as also contained in the legal notice dated 27.11.2010, by passing a speaking order within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. June 03, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE