IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 11874 of 2010 Date of Decision: 13.09.2011 Balwinder Kaur ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT Present : Mr. Balwinder Kaur, Advocate for the petitioner Ms. Sudeepti Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab **** SURYA KANT, J.(Oral) The petitioner seeks a direction for counting of her adhoc service towards the 'qualifying service' for the purpose of pension and other retiral dues. It is averred that the petitioner joined as S.S.Mistress initially on adhoc post on 12.01.1982 and her services were thereafter on regularized on 01.04.1985. The petitioner retired from service w.e.f. 3101.2006. The petitioner urges that the adhoc service rendered by her followed by regularization i.e. from 12.09.1982 to 31.03.1985 deserve to be counted towards the 'qualifying service' as held by this Court in Civil Writ Petition No. 11451 of 2008 (Harjit Kaur V. State of Punjab and others) . CWP No. 11874 of 2010 [2] Three opportunities have already been granted to the respondents but no reply/affidavit has been filed. The officials of the department, who are present in Court, have no explanation for not filing the same. The record has also not been produced due to which the learned Deputy Advocate General is unable to render assistance in the matter. In these circumstances when the claim putforth by the petitioner has gone unrebutted and uncontested, the writ petition is allowed in terms of decision of this Court in Harjit Singh's (supra), with a direction to the respondents to count the adhoc service rendered by the petitioner towards 'qualifying service' for the purpose of pension and retiral dues etc. Needful be done within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. Dasti. 13.09.2011 (SURYA KANT) 'ravinder' JUDGE