IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 19233 of 2005 Date of Decision: 19.09.2011 Bant Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT Present : Mr. S.K.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Sudeepti Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the respondents. **** SURYA KANT, J.(Oral) Petitioner seeks a mandamus directing the respondents to count the service rendered by him as daily wager alongwith the regular service as qualify service for the purpose of granting him the benefit of pension and other retiral benefits. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the controversy involved in this case stands answered in favour of the petitioner by a Division Bench judgment of this Court dated 19.04.2011 passed in L.P.A. No. 189 of 2004 (State of Punjab and others V. Mukhtiar Singh). The writ petition is allowed in terms of Mukhtiar Singh's case (supra). Dasti. 19.09.2011 (SURYA KANT) 'ravinder' JUDGE