ASHOK KUMAR NANDA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This judgment disposes of C.W.P. No. 7285 and 3077 of 1993. Challenge has been made to the almost identical orders passed by the Chief Engineer (Drainage), Irrigation Department, Punjab and the Chief Engineer (Construction) S.Y.L. Canal Project, Punjab, whereby the services of the petitioners were assigned to the Director, Rural Development and Panchayat Department, Punjab, Chandigarh, for appointment as Junior Engineers in that Department, in these petitions under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India.

(2.) The service record of the petitioners in CWP No. 7285 of 1993 indicating their name, date of birth, date of joining as Tracers in the Irrigation Department and dates of subsequent promotions as Draftsmen and Junior Engineers is as follows :-

(3.) The grouse of the petitioners is that they had been appointed as Junior Engineers in the Irrigation Department and their services cannot be transferred to another Department against their wishes.