IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5467 of 2010 Date of Decision : March 26, 2010. Jagdish Lal Aneja .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Amrik Singh, 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 is presently working as an Executive Engineer in the Irrigation Department, Government of Punjab. Vide an order dated 14.10.2004 (Annexure P-16), he was promoted as S.D.E. retrospectively with effect from 7.7.1988, followed by further promotion as Executive Engineer. The petitioner has now been served with a show cause notice dated 23.2.2010 (Annexure P-23) (alleged to have been communicated to him on 15.3.2010), whereby the order dated 14.10.2004 promoting him as S.D.E. retrospectively w.e.f. 7.7.1998 is sought to be withdrawn. Aggrieved, the petitioner has approached this Court. Though the petitioner has raised various contentious issues, C.W.P.No .5467 of 2010 2 however, I am of the considered view that ordinarily no writ petition is maintainable against a show cause notice. The petitioner ought to give reply to the show cause notice and if any punitive action is taken, he can seek his grievances before an appropriate forum. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of at this stage with a liberty to the petitioner to submit his reply to the show cause notice served upon him, within a period of one week from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. The respondent is directed to consider the reply of the petitioner on merits and dispose of the same by passing a speaking order. It is further directed that if the final order entails reversion of the petitioner from the post occupied by him, the said order shall not be implemented for a period of one month from the date it is communicated to the petitioner. Dasti. March 26, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE