IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 01.04.2026 ROOPINDER SINGH ALIAS RUPINDER SINGH ….Petitioner V/S STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SHEEL NAGU, CHIEF JUSTICE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJIV BERRY, JUDGE Present: Mr. Nitin Verma, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Salil Sabhlok, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab.

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SHEEL NAGU, CHIEF JUSTICE (Oral)

1. Present petition has been filed as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the compassionate appointment extended to respondent No. 5 to the post of Inspector in Punjab Police, which was made sometime in the year 2009 or prior thereto.

2. At the outset, it would have been appropriate for the petitioner to move an application seeking issuance of a writ of quo warranto, which has not been done in the present case.

3. Even otherwise, the scheme governing compassionate appointment, under which respondent No. 5 came to be appointed, has not been placed on record by the petitioner.

4. Looking to the facts raised and the relief sought, it is obvious that the issue raised in this PIL relates to service dispute. The Apex Court in the cases of Dr. Duryodhan Sahu vs. Jitendra