IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. L.P.A. No.659 of 1995 (O&M) Date of decision:21.1.2010 The State of Punjab and another -----Appellants Vs. Surinder Paul Sharma and others -----Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK SINGH Present:- Mr. Jaswinder Singh, DAG.Pb. for the appellants. --- Adarsh Kumar Goel,J. 1. This appeal has been preferred against order of learned Single Judge allowing writ petition of the respondents and directing that their service with privately managed government aided schools be counted for proficiency step up increments, senior scales/selection grades and post retiral benefits. 2. Case of the respondents is that they were employed with aided schools which were taken over by the State of Punjab but their past service was not counted. In LPA No.659 of 1995 (O&M) support of their claim, reliance was placed on judgments of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in State of Orissa v. N.N.Swami, AIR 1977 SC 1237, R.L.Marwaha v. Union of India, JT1987(3) SC 292 and R.K.Gupta v. Union of India, JT 1987(4) SC 157. Learned Single Judge upheld the claim of the respondents. 3. We have heard learned counsel for the appellants and perused the record. 4. Learned counsel for the appellants is unable to show any error in the impugned judgment or distinguish the applicability of the judgments relied upon in the impugned judgment. Admittedly, the respondents had rendered service with the aided schools which were taken over by the State of Punjab. There is no justification for denying them the benefit of the said service. 5. We, thus, do not find any ground to interfere with the view taken by the learned Single Judge. 6. The appeal is dismissed. (Adarsh Kumar Goel) Judge January 21, 2010 (Alok Singh) ‘gs’ Judge 2 LPA No.659 of 1995 (O&M) 3