IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3421 of 1994 (O&M) Date of Decision : February 11, 2010. Lekh Raj and others .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Vivek Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms.Charu Tuli, Sr.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? --- ORDER Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioners seek a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondents from making direct recruitment to the post of Head of the Department/equated posts. They also seek a mandamus to direct the respondents to consider and appoint the petitioners as Head of the Departments on regular basis. Ms.Charu Tuli, learned Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, on instructions, states that during the pendency of this writ petition, all the petitioners have retired from service on attaining the age of superannuation. She further states that except petitioner No.1, rest of the C.W.P.No .3421 of 1994 (O&M) 2 petitioners were promoted as Head of the Department and some of them have retired as Principals of the Poly-technics and that petitioner No.1 could not be promoted as no DPC was convened before his retirement on superannuation. In view of the later event noticed above, this writ petition appears to have been rendered infructuous. Ordered accordingly. 11-02-2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE