C.W.P. No. 4466 of 2009 [ 1 ] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No. 4466 of 2009 Date of Decision: Aug. 9, 2011 Pargat Singh and others ................................ Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ................... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Ritu Bahri 1.To be referred to the Reporters or not? 2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr. H.S.Sethi, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Ram Lal Gupta, Addl. A.G. Punjab. ... RITU BAHRI, J. Petitioners under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India are seeking a writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to grant minimum of the regular pay scale to them as they have been working on daily wages since last about 22 years. Petitioners are working on various posts as C.W.P. No. 4466 of 2009 [ 2 ] Patrolman, Fitter, Helper, Pump Driver and Mali-cum- Chowkidar. The details of date of appointment of the petitioners and the post on which they are working is given in Annexure P1 attached with the writ petition. The precise claim of the petitioners is that they are doing the same job as the regular appointees and they are discharging the same duties as being discharged by others. Some employees junior to the petitioner had approached this Court by filing C.W.P. No. 12436 of 1999 which was decided on 15.5.2003 and they were allowed the benefit of minimum of the regular pay scale along with DA and other benefits. While implementing the judgment this relief was not granted to the petitioners. During the pendency of this writ petition a Division Bench of this Court while deciding L.P.A.No. 1024 of 2009 after considering the judgment of the Full Bench in Vijay Sharma v. State of Punjab 2002 (1) SCT 931 and a Supreme Court judgment in U.P.Land Development Corporation v. Mohd. Khursheed Anwar 2010 (3) SCT 327 which extended the benefit of equal pay for equal work even in the case of contractual appointment allowed the claim of the daily wagers for grant of minimum of regular pay scale. The writ petition is allowed and the petitioners are held entitled to minimum of pay scale of the categories to which they belong with all allowances as allowed by the C.W.P. No. 4466 of 2009 [ 3 ] department. However, the relief shall be confined to three years preceding the date of filing of the writ petition. 9.8.2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Rupi JUDGE