IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 7006 of 2008 Date of decision: 05.10.2010 Santu ...Petitioner Versus The State of Haryana and others ...Respondents Present: Mr. B.B. Sharma , Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sunil Nehra, Sr. DAG, Haryana for the State. RANJIT SINGH J. The issue whether work-charge or daily wage service is to be counted for the purpose of pension is no more in dispute and has fairly been settled in number of decision of this Court. Reference in this regard can be made to Civil Writ Petition No. 7006 of 2008 titled as Santu versus The State of Haryana and others, Hari Chand versus Bhakra Beas Management Board and others 2005 (4) SLR 215 and Mulkh Raj and another versus Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. and another 2007 (1) SLR 860. Accordingly, the stand taken in the reply cannot be accepted. The regular service rendered by the petitioner is not the only service to be taken into consideration for counting the pensionable service. The petitioner is entitled to ask for count the service rendered on the work-charge/daily wage basis for the purpose of counting the pensionable service. The present writ petition, therefore, is disposed of with the direction to the respondents to count the service rendered by the petitioner on work-charge/daily wage basis for the purpose of pension. Let the exercise be done within a period of 3 months from the date of receipt of copy of this order and amount due, if any, be released to the petitioner. October 05, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) rts JUDGE