CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.2629 OF 2010 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: MAY 05,2011 Harpal Singh .....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. I. S. Panesar, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Shruti Jain, AAG, Haryana, for the State. Mr. S. S. Dalal, Advocate, for respondent No.2. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner belongs to scheduled caste category and has filed this writ petition to seek his promotion to the post of Manager from the date his juniors were promoted. Having joined as a Clerk on 6.8.1974, the petitioner was promoted as Junior Accountant on 10.10.1985. He was promoted as Manager on 17.3.1999 but subject to the result of the S.L.P pending before the Hon'ble Supreme Court. On 28.7.2001, the petitioner was reverted to the post of Junior Accountant on the basis of judgment passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the Special Leave Petition noticed above. The petitioner was again posted as officiating Manager on 24.6.2005. On 16.3.2006, some instructions were CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.2629 OF 2010 :{ 2 }: issued for accelerated seniority of S.C category as a consequence of promotion under reservation policy. Temporary seniority list of the Managers was accordingly prepared on 31.12.2006. The petitioner served a legal notice for his promotion. This Court thereafter issued direction to the respondents to decide the legal notice and the claim of the petitioner, therefore, has been rejected on 31.12.2009. He has accordingly impugned this order through the present writ petition. The only submission made before me is that the petitioner be granted promotion from the date his juniors were promoted. The petitioner was indeed promoted to the post of Manager on 12.3.1999 by giving him benefit of accelerated seniority in terms of instructions issued by Chief Secretary, Haryana. This promotion was conditional to the decision of the S.L.P. The Hon'ble Supreme Court now has held in Ajit Singh Janjua and others Vs. State of Punjab and others, (1996) 2 Supreme Court Cases 715 that no employee belonging to reserve category of S.C or B.C be allowed the benefit of accelerated promotion on the basis of accelerated seniority. It is on this ground that the petitioner was reverted to the post of Junior Accountant. The seniority has also been now drawn, as per which the petitioner may not be entitled to the promotion, which he is seeking through the present writ petition. The petitioner has also retired and is no more in service. I find no merit in the plea raised in the writ petition and the same is accordingly dismissed. May 05,2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE