CWP No. 13976 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 13976 of 2011 Date of decision : 03.08.2011 Jasbir Kaur and others ......Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. Kapil Kakkar, Advocate for the petitioners **** RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) Issue notice of motion. On asking of Court, Mr. Ram Lal Gupta, Addl.A.G. Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the State. Counsel for the petitioner is directed to supply copy of the petition to the State counsel today itself during the course of the day. This petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of direction for quashing the impugned letter dated 31.10.2008 (Annexure P-10) issued by respondent No. 3 as well as letter dated 21.04.2009 (Annexure P-11) issued by respondent No. 1 At the very outset, learned counsel for the petitioners has referred to Annexure P-14 whereby the Director Public Instructions (E.E.) Punjab, Chandigarh has complied with the orders passed by this Court on 03.12.2009 whereby the benefit of three increments had been granted to the JBT teachers CWP No. 13976 of 2011 -2- on acquiring Giani/Prabhakar qualification had been withdrawn and their salary had been refixed. Vide order dated in 29.09.2008 passed by this Court in CWP No. 1079 of 1987 wherein similar circulars were considered by this Court and it has been found that the petitioners on acquiring higher qualification were entitled to additional increments. Against the above said decision, review application No. 58 of 2011 was filed in this Court, which was dismissed on 07.03.2011. In view of the above facts, this petition is allowed at this stage without seeking any reply from the respondents. Respondents are directed to consider the claim of all the petitioners in view of judgment Annexure P-12 and order dated 28.04.2011 (Annexure P-14) within a period of three months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. August 03, 2011 (RITU BAHRI) G.Arora JUDGE