IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.20591 of 2009 Date of decision:17.03.2010 Om Prakash Saini ….Petitioner versus State of Haryana and others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ------ Present: Mr. R.K. Bansal, Advocate, for Mr. Rajinder Goyal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Ravi Dutt Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for respondent No.1. Mr. Parveen Gupta, Advocate, for Mr. Narender Hooda, Advocate, for respondents 2 to 6. ----- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest? ----- K.Kannan, J (Oral) 1. Counsel for the respondents 2 to 6 has put in appearance and urges that the matter is covered by a decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and the case could be decided as per the law laid down in Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and others Versus Bachan Singh in Civil Appeal No.4903 of 2009. A similar case has also been decided by this Court in terms of the aforesaid Hon'ble Supreme Court ruling in Ajit Singh Versus Haryana Power Generation Corporation, Panchkula and others in Civil Writ Petition No.19824 of 2006, dated 27.10.2009. Civil Writ Petition No.20591 of 2009 - 2 - 2. In terms of the judgments referred to above, the petitioner shall be admitted to the pension scheme on exercising an option in accordance with the instructions dated 06.08.1993 and 09.08.1994 within a period of 3 months from the date of the receipt of the copy of the order. It is also made clear that in terms of above instructions the petitioner shall pay the employer's contribution of EPF with interest immediately after exercising the option. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 17.03.2010 sanjeev