IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 3596 of 2009 DATE OF DECISION : 31.03.2009 Dharamvir and others .... PETITIONERS Versus State of Haryana and another ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. S.S. Malik, Advocate, for the petitioners. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. Petitioners Dharamvir, Suresh Kumar and Karnail Singh joined as Auction Recorders in the Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board (hereinafter referred to as `the respondent Board'), on ad-hoc basis, on 19.7.1988, 30.6.1988 and 22.6.1988, respectively. Subsequently, their services were regularised on the said post with effect from 1.11.1991. The respondent Board counted ad-hoc service period of the petitioners only towards annual increments and not towards the seniority for the purposes of promotion to the next higher post and for granting benefit of Assured Career Progression Scheme to them. When the claim of the petitioners to count their ad-hoc service period towards the seniority for the purpose of promotion to the next higher post and for granting benefit of Assured Career CWP No. 3596 of 2009 -2- Progression Scheme was rejected, they filed the instant petition for issuing direction to the respondents to count their ad-hoc service period towards seniority for the aforesaid two purposes. The controversy involved in the instant petition has already been settled by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in State of Haryana v. Haryana Veterinary & AHTS Association and Anr., 2000 (8) Supreme Court Cases 4, wherein it was held that for the purpose of calculating the period of service required for giving higher scale of pay and for determination of seniority only regular service rendered by the employee is to be counted and not ad-hoc service. By following the said decision, the Supreme Court again in the case of State of Punjab and Anr. v. Ashwani Kumar and Ors., 2009 (1) Recent Services Judgments 452 has held that only regular service is to be counted towards seniority and no ad-hoc service is to be included in calculating the period of service for giving the higher scale of pay or towards seniority. In view of the aforesaid legal position, there is no merit in this petition and the same is, hereby, dismissed. March 31, 2009 ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) ndj JUDGE