IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 5788 OF 2007 DATE OF DECISION: February 29, 2008 Parties Name Mahavir Singh and others ..PETITIONERS VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH PRESENT: Mr. H.N.Sahu, Advocate, for Mr. L.R. Nandal, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr. DAG, Haryana, for respondents No. 1 to 3. Ms. Monisha Lamba, Advocate, for respondent No. 4. Mr. Sanjay Chauhan, Advocate, for respondent No. 5. JASBIR SINGH, J. (oral) Order. By filing this writ petition, petitioners pray that directions be issued to the respondents to grant them benefit of ACP scale, at par with their juniors. To get relief, reliance has been placed upon a judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in S.L.P.(Civil) No. 20264 of 2006 (Commissioner & Secretary to Government of Haryana v. Ram Sarup Ganda) and also a Division Bench judgment of this Court in C.W.P. 7551 of 2003 (H.R.Goel v. State of Haryana and others), rendered on December 7, 2006. In response to notice issued, reply has been filed by CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 5788 OF 2007 -2- respondents No. 1 to 4 in Court today. The same has been taken on record. In para 4 of the reply, it has been stated that benefit claimed has already been released in favour of petitioners No. 1 to 4 and 6. With regard to others, case is under consideration. No dispute has been raised on merits. It has not been stated that others are not entitled to get the said benefit. It appears that delay is only with regard to processing of their case. In view of reply filed, this writ petition is disposed of as infructuous with direction to the respondents to expedite release of benefit to the remaining petitioners also. Needful be done within two months. ( Jasbir Singh ) Judge ( Jaswant Singh) February 29, 2008. Judge DKC