Chandigarh, June 12 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday directed Punjab government to put in abeyance meeting of departmental promotion committee (DPC) of irrigation department scheduled for June 12 to consider cases of junior engineers (JEs) for promotions as sub-divisional engineers (SDEs).

The high court bench of justice Deepak Gupta acted on a plea from Chandan Garg, an electrical engineer, who had alleged that respondents have already exhausted the quota for civil and mechanical cadres and now they intend to fill the existing posts which are meant for electrical cadre.

His counsel BS Mittal had argued that the petitions are pending adjudication on the issue of promotions criterion/quota to different categories of engin...