IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 3935 of 2011 Date of Decision: 13.09.2011 Palwinder Kaur ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present : Mr. R.K.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner Ms. Monika Chibbar Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the respondents. **** SURYA KANT, J.(Oral) The petitioner is a S.S.Mistress in the Education Department. She belongs to the reserved category of scheduled caste. Her case for promotion to the post of Head Mistress was forwarded but the District Education Officer (S.E.) SAS Nagar, Mohali returned the same vide Endst. No. E-2/10-939 dated 3.9.2010 with an objection that her Annual Confidential Reports for the years 2005-06 to 2009-10 should firstly be counter signed by the District Education Officer. It is stated that the Annual Confidential Reports were thereafter got counter signed and the case was resubmitted but thereafter no decision appears to have been taken by the competent authority. CWP No. 3935 of 2011 [2] In these circumstances the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to take a final decision regarding the promotion case of the petitioner within a period of four months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order and in case she is found entitled to grant her promotion with consequential benefits. Dasti. 13.09.2011 (SURYA KANT) 'ravinder' JUDGE