IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. LPA No. 786 of 2010 Date of Decision: July 12, 2010 State of Haryana and others …Appellants Versus Mehar Chand and another …Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N. JINDAL Present: Ms. Mamta Singhal Talwar, AAG, Haryana, for the appellants. 1. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? M.M. KUMAR, J. The instant appeal under Clause X of the Letters Patent is directed against the judgment dated 19.1.2010, passed by the learned Single Judge in CWP No. 828 of 2010. The learned Single Judge has granted the relief of pay protection to the erstwhile employees of Octroi Branch of Municipal Committee, Ambala, because in the year 1999 the octroi was abolished by the appellant State and the surplus staff was ordered to be absorbed in the Industrial Training and Vocational Education Department on 29.12.1999. The petitioner-respondents after serving legal notice for the purposes of grant of benefit of pay protection with regard to service rendered to the Municipal LPA No. 786 of 2010 Committee, had approached this Court. Learned Single Judge while allowing the writ petition has followed the Division Bench judgment of this Court rendered in the case of Darshan Lal and others v. State of Haryana and others (CWP No. 11454 of 2004, decided on 8.5.2006, Annexure P-8). It was not disputed before us that the order passed by the Division Bench has attained finality once the benefit of pay protection has been given to the petitioners in CWP No. 11454 of 2004, which was decided on 8.5.2006. There is no reason to deny the same benefit to the petitioner-respondents. The matter is squarely covered by the Division Bench judgment rendered in the case of Darshan Lal (supra) in favour of the petitioner-respondents and does not merit interference of this Court. Accordingly, the appeal fails and the same is dismissed. (M.M. KUMAR) JUDGE (A.N. JINDAL) July 12, 2010 JUDGE Pkapoor 2