IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.18170 of 2011 Date of Decision : September 27, 2011. Gurjeet Singh and others .....Petitioners versus The State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Virinder Kumar Shukla, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, 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. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Let five copies of the writ petition be supplied to the learned State counsel during the course of day failing which the order shall be automatically recalled and the writ petition shall be deemed to have been dismissed for non-prosecution. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to seek any counter-reply from the respondents at this stage. CWP No.18170 of 2011 [2] The petitioners who are working as Pump Operators in the Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Punjab, seek a mandamus for the grant of the revised pay scales recommended by various Pay Commissions with regard to skilled and semi-skilled staff in the services of the Punjab Government. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the controversy involved in this case stands settled by this Court in favour of the petitioners vide a decision rendered in L.P.A.No.44 of 2009 (State of Punjab and others versus Rajinder Pal Gauttam and others) as well as the subsequent decisions given by various Benches including dated 4.3.2011 rendered in Civil Writ Petition No.3820 of 2011 (Bitu Ram and others versus State of Punjab and others) granting somewhat similar reliefs. The SLP filed against the order passed in LPA No.44 of 2009 has also been dismissed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court vide order dated 12.7.2010. In these circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of in terms of the aforesaid decisions in Rajinder Pal Gautam's case (supra) and Bitu Ram and others' case (supra). Dasti. September 27, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE