IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5965 of 2007 Date of Decision : March 11, 2010. HC Harjinder Singh and another .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.G.S.Bal, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.B.S.Chahal, 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? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioners are working as Head Constables and ASI (local rank) respectively in the Punjab Police. They seek a mandamus to direct respondent Nos.1 & 2 to depute them to undergo Intermediate School Course and thereafter consider them for promotion as ASIs with effect from the date when their juniors, namely, respondent Nos.3 & 4 have been promoted. In short, the grievance of the petitioners is that they are outstanding sports-persons and on that basis are entitled to be deputed to the Intermediate School Course within the prescribed quota. Their further grievance is that though achievements of respondents Nos.3 & 4 are equivalent to the petitioners to a degree, yet they even were deputed to undergo the aforesaid course and thereafter have been promoted as ASIs. It is alleged that respondent Nos.3 & 4 were otherwise also junior to the C.W.P.No .5965 of 2007 2 petitioners in the Police Force. Having heard learned counsel for the parties at some length, it appears that the grievance of the petitioners needs to be redressed immediately by the Officers Committee consisting (i) Shri Parag Jain, IPS, IGP/Head Quarters, Punjab Police; (ii) Smt.Gurpreet Kaur Deo, IPS, DIG, Administration, Punjab Police Headquarters; and (iii) Shri M.S.Gill, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, attached with the DGP, Punjab, constituted by this Court vide an order dated 4.3.2010 passed in C.W.P.No.566 of 2010 (Ranjit Singh and others versus State of Punjab and others), to consider and redress the grievances of the police personnel like the petitioners in this writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the aforesaid Committee to consider the claim of the petitioners in accordance with the Rules/Policies as well as the facts pleaded in the writ petition and take an appropriate decision within a period of one month from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. It is made clear that in case the Committee recommends that petitioners are entitled to be deputed for the Intermediate School Course, such recommendations shall be implemented forthwith. However, if the petitioners are dis-satisfied with the decision of the Committee, they shall be at liberty to seek redressal of their grievance before an appropriate forum. Dasti. March 11, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE