High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCWP/17288/2018disposed of

Shiv Dutt An ORS v. State Of Haryana And ORS

2019-01-16Mr. Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi2 pages

CWP-17288-2018 -1-

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH CWP-17288-2018 Date of decision: - 16.01.2019 Shiv Dutt and others ....Petitioners

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State of Haryana and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI Present:- Mr. Gurinder Pal Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners.

Mr. Jasmeet Singh Bedi, Additional Advocate General, Hry. **** HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI , J. (ORAL) Present writ petition has been filed by the petitioners claiming the re-fixation of their pay in view of the orders of this Court passed in CWP No.16084 of 1997, CWP No.2757 of 1998 and CWP No.4518 of 2000 which were upheld by the Hon'ble Supreme Court, vide order dated 08.12.2015 (Annexure P-5) being Civil Appeal No.8661 of 2009.

Petitioners claim that they are similarly situated with those who have been granted the relief by this Court but the same has not been granted to them only on the ground that they have not approached this Court and were not the petitioners in above mentioned writ petitions. Counsel for the petitioners states that even though the representation dated 07.11.2017 (Annexure P-7) has been attached with the present writ petition, filed by only one of the petitioner, the similar NARESH KUMAR 2019.01.18 13:08 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document Chandigarh

CWP-17288-2018 -2representations have been filed with the respondents by the other petitioners as well. In this regard, the statement has been made in paragraph 13 of the present petition, therefore, counsel for the petitioners prays that the petitioners will be satisfied, at this stage, in case, a time bound direction is given to the respondents to decide the representation dated 07.11.2017 (Annexure P-7) and other similar representations filed by the petitioners, which are still pending consideration with the respondents.

Learned counsel for the respondents states that the Department has no objection for the grant of prayer of deciding their representations as being made by the petitioners hereinabove. Keeping in view the request made by counsel for the parties and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case and entitlement of the petitioners in respect of the claim made in the writ petition/representations, the respondents are directed to decide the representations filed by the petitioners within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. In case it is found that the petitioners are entitled for any relief, the same shall also be released to them within a period of next three months. Present writ petition stands disposed of.

( HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI ) January 16, 2019 JUDGE naresh.k Whether reasoned/speaking?

Yes Whether reportable?

No NARESH KUMAR 2019.01.18 13:08 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document Chandigarh