IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.9476 of 2011 Date of Decision : May 26, 2011. Kanwaljit Singh and others .....Petitioners versus The State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Rajiv Atma Ram, Senior Advocate with Ms.Trishanjali Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioners. -.- 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) One of the grievance raised on behalf of the petitioners is that against the order dated 30.10.2009 (Annexure P-13) passed by the Director Public Instructions (Secondary Education), Punjab, in purported compliance of the directions issued by this Court, the petitioners have preferred a departmental appeal on 28.12.2009 (Annexure P-14) before the Principal Secretary, Education Department, Government of Punjab, but the same has not been decided so far. Having heard learned Senior counsel for the petitioners and keeping in view the fact that the above stated departmental appeal is stated CWP No.9476 of 2011 [2] to be pending for the last about 1½ years, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the Principal Secretary to the Government of Punjab, Education Department, to decide the above- mentioned appeal of the petitioners preferably after giving an opportunity of personal hearing to them in representative capacity and by passing a speaking order within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. May 26, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE