CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.14197 OF 1993 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: JULY 19 ,2011 Kartar Singh .....Petitioner VERSUS Haryana State Electricity Board, Panchkula 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. Roopak Bansal, Advocate, for the petitioner. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. This writ petition was dismissed for non-prosecution on May 25, 2011. Vide separate order of even date, the said order has been recalled and the petition has been taken up on Board for hearing with the concurrence of the parties. Through this writ petition, the petitioner has made a prayer for promoting him as Assistant Foreman with effect from the date his juniors were promoted and to post him at his present place of posting. The petitioner, who was recruited in the service on CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.14197 OF 1993 :{ 2 }: 15.11.1961, as Assistant Line Man was promoted as Lineman on 1.2.1968. On 7.8.1980, the respondent-Board promoted number of Lineman as Assistant Foreman and after regularising, transferred them in public interest. The petitioner was also ordered to be promoted alongwith 29 other Lineman in the category of Matric Pass. The petitioner was transferred to Karnal Circle from Delhi Circle. The grievance of the petitioner is that he never came to know about this order as it was not intimated to him. The petitioner submits that it was responsibility of Superintendent Engineer (OP Circle), Delhi, to endorse the copy of this order to respondent No.4, who could have then served this order on the petitioner for compliance. Due to this negligence, the petitioner did not come to know about his promotion order till the month of June 1993. He accordingly made representation. The petitioner then had represented for giving him promotion with effect from the due date as he was then likely to retire within 2 to 3 years. When nothing was being done, he has filed this writ petition. The writ petition was admitted and has now come up for hearing. The petitioner has already retired. The writ petition filed by the petitioner to seek implementation of the order passed in the year 1980 after a lapse of 13 years would clearly show that the same suffers from delay and latches. As per the respondents, the petitioner never approached the Department for promotion. The petitioner, however, was relieved in January 1994 to join his new assignment and was allowed to resume his duty at Sonepat. The petitioner, thus, was promoted CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.14197 OF 1993 :{ 3 }: Considering the delay on the part of the petitioner in making this approach and the fact that he has already retired, no case for interference for grant of promotion with retrospective date is made out. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed. July 19, 2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE