CWP No. 5548 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 5548 of 2010 Date of decision : 01.08.2011 State of Punjab and others ......Petitioners versus Ram Lakhan and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. Ram Lal Gupta, Addl. A.G. Punjab Mr. P.K. Mutneja, Advocate for respondent No. 1 **** RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) This petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for the issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned order dated 12.09.2008 (Annexure P-6) passed by learned Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Gurdaspur whereby an application under Section 33C(2) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (herein after to be referred as 'the Act') of the workman has been allowed by computing benefits of Rs.9020/- payable to him on account of entitlement of proficiency step up on completion of 32 years of service by including the period of ad hoc service. It is not disputed that the workman was appointed by the Punjab Govt. as a Mali on 11.11.1968 on ad hoc basis and his services were regularized w.e.f 01.01.1973 by counting the period of ad hoc service. In view of the law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the CWP No. 5548 of 2010 -2- case of Sita Ram vs. State of Haryana and others, 2004(4) SCT 562 and S.K. Malhotra vs.State of Haryana and others 2003(1) SCT 330 wherein it was held that after regularization of services of an ad hoc employee, he cannot be denied benefit of additional increments on completion of 8,18 years of service by not including the period of ad hoc or work charged service. In view of the above, the present writ petition is dismissed. August 01, 2011 (RITU BAHRI) G.Arora JUDGE