IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1641 of 2010 Date of Decision : March 17, 2010. Inspector Sukhwinder Singh and another .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.R.R.Dhawan, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms.Charu Tuli, Sr.DAG, Punjab. -.- 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) Notice of motion to respondent Nos.1 to 5 only at this stage. Ms.Charu Tuli, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on their behalf. In view of the nature of the order which I propose to pass, there is no necessity to issue notice to the private respondent Nos.6 to 27 nor any counter-reply is required from the official-respondents at this stage. The petitioners seek quashing of the order dated 15.4.2008 (Annexure P-2) whereby their representation raising inter-se seniority dispute has been disposed of by the Director General of Police, Punjab, after observing that the decision regarding their seniority shall be taken after receipt of certain recommendations from the Committee constituted C.W.P.No .1641 of 2010 2 earlier. This Court vide an order dated 4.3.2010 passed in C.W.P.No.566 of 2010 (Ranjit Singh and others versus State of Punjab and others), has constituted an Officer Committee consisting (i) Shri Parag Jain, IPS, IGP/Head Quarters, Punjab Police; (ii) Smt.Gurpreet Kaur Deo, IPS, DIG, Administration, Punjab Police Headquarters; and (iii) Shri M.S.Gill, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, attached with the DGP, Punjab to consider and redress the grievances of the police personnel like the petitioners in this writ petition. Since the seniority dispute of the petitioners, viz-a-viz, the private respondents needs to be resolved on the strength of the facts to be ascertained from the record, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction that the claim of the petitioners be placed before the aforesaid Officers Committee who, after hearing both the parties shall consider the claim of the petitioners in accordance with the Rules/Policies as well as the facts pleaded in the writ petition and make a recommendations to the Competent Authority within a period of 4 months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. However, if the petitioner is disagreed with the recommendations or having any objection(s), he shall be at liberty to seek redressal of his grievance before an appropriate forum. Dasti. March 17, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE