C.W.P.No.432 of 1988 1 HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P.No.432 of 1988 Date of decision : 17.01.2007 Ram Lubhaya and others ........Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .......Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA. Present: Mr.Sanjiv Thakur, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr.Sushant Maini, DAG, Punjab, for the respondents * * * ORDER HEMANT GUPTA, J. (Oral) As per the petitioners, they joined the Punjab State Tubewell Corporation as Beldars, Work Mistri and Mason in the year 1978 to 1980. It is alleged that they have 7 to 8 years service to their credit. It is further alleged that they were served with retrenchment notices on 14.5.1987 and 15.5.1987, whereby were intimated that they have been retrenched w.e.f. 15.6.1987. The said retrenchment notice was challenged by way of the present writ petition before this Court, disputing the allegations that the petitioners are not surplus. Still further, it has been pointed out that the Punjab Government has decided to regularise the services of those work-charge employees who have completed 5 years of service. Therefore, it is alleged that the petitioners have put in more than 240 days service and they are entitled to regularisation of their services. The relief claimed by the petitioners could not be granted in the present writ petition in view of the judgment rendered by Hon'ble C.W.P.No.432 of 1988 2 Supreme Court of India, “A.I.R.-2006 Supreme Court-1806, Secretary, State of Karnataka and others versus Umadevi and others”. The services of the petitioners can not be regularised merely for the reason that they have completed more than 240 days service. Still further, in respect of challenge to the retrenchment notices, the petitioners have adequate alternate remedy under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. It may be noticed that the writ petition was admitted on 4.2.1988 without any interim order. Therefore, I do not find any ground to grant claim of the petitioners in the present writ petition. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. (HEMANT GUPTA) January 17, 2007 JUDGE *mohinder C.W.P.No.432 of 1988 3 C.M.No.11130 of 2006 in C.W.P.No.432 of 1988 Present: Mr.Sanjiv Thakur, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr.Sushant Maini, DAG, Punjab, for the respondents * * * For the reasons mentioned in the application, the order dated 22.9.2004 is recalled. The writ petition is restored to its original numbers. (HEMANT GUPTA) January 17, 2007 JUDGE *mohinder