JUDGMENT

M. Jagannadha Rao, J.-Leave granted.

2. The appellant Mr. Sarabjit Singh (2nd respondent in the writ petition) is aggrieved by the judgment of the Division Bench of High Court of Punjab & Haryana dated 7.6.2000 in CWP No.13240/99 allowing the same in favour of the 1st respondent-writ petitioner, Ex. Major B.D. Gupta. The High Court accepted the contention of the 1st respondent that the Departmental Promotion Committee of the State of Punjab was governed by the guidelines issued by the Central Government which were adopted by the State on 1.10.1999 and held that if those guidelines were applied, the DPC would have had to consider eight Superintending Engineers for promotion to the post of Chief Engineer and not merely five as done in this case, and if that had been done, the writ petitioner, Ex. Major B.D. Gupta would have come within the said zone of consideration and he could not have been omitted from consideration as was done by the DPC. Further under the Central Guidelines, as adopted by the State on 1.10.99, candidates had to get the grading of very good while under the earlier State guidelines, "good" was sufficient. Hence the selection of Respondents 2 to 4 in CWP,