IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

216 CWP-18069-2014 (O&M)

Date of Decision: 20.04.2026 Vijay Kumari .....Petitioner VERSUS Punjab Water Resources Management & Anr.

...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present:- Mr. R.K. Arora, Advocate with Mr. Prabhat, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Parminder S. Kaul, Advocate for Mr. Amit Singh Sethi, Senior Advocate for the respondents.

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HARPREET SINGH BRAR , J. (Oral)

1. The present writ petition has been filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for the issuance of a writ in the nature of Certiorari/Mandamus, or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, for quashing office order No. 5693 dated 21.07.2014 (Annexure P-12) and order No. 5721 dated 21.07.2014 (Annexure P-13), qua the petitioner, whereby the dates of grant of placements to the petitioner in the higher pay scale of Senior Clerk/Junior Assistant have been altered after her retirement and recovery has been ordered from her leave encashment; and also for quashing memo dated 12.03.2014 (Annexure P-11), whereby the seniority of the petitioner has been changed after her retirement on account of misinterpretation of the ju