IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA CWP (T) No.16405 of 2008 Decided on: June 3, 2011 Salig Ram ..Petitioner Versus State of H.P. & others .. Respondents Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Surjit Singh, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 For the petitioner: Mr. Anuj Nag, Advocate. For the Respondents: Mr. Naresh Kaul, Advocate. Surjit Singh, Judge (oral) Heard and gone through the record. 2. Petitioner was engaged as Part Time Worker in the year 1973. He remained as Part Time Worker till 2005, when he was appointed on regular basis. Earlier the retirement age of Class-IV employees was 60 years. In 2001, vide Notification dated 10.5.2001, Annexure R-1, retirement age was reduced to 58 years, in respect of the employees, who were appointed after the date of the issuance of said Notification, i.e. 10.5.2001. Petitioner having been appointed in 2005, as full time Class-IV employee, was, therefore, supposed to have been retired on completing the age of 58 years. Whet her report ers of t he l ocal papers may be al l owed t o see t he j udgment ? É2É 3. Respondents sought to retire the petitioner, on completing the age of 58 years on 30.11.2007, but he filed an Original Application before the erstwhile H.P. Administrative Tribunal, seeking the relief that he was entitled to continue to serve upto the age of 60 years. He also sought interim relief. An order was passed by the Tribunal, staying his retirement at the age of 58 years. On account of that order, petitioner continued to serve upto the age of 60 years, which he completed in November, 2009. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that salary for the period from 1.12.2007 to 30.11.2009 has not been paid to the petitioner, though he worked during the aforesaid period, on account of the stay order issued by the Tribunal on 28.11.2007. 5. Since the petitioner worked during the aforesaid period and it is not the case of the respondents that no work was taken from him, respondents are ordered to pay to the petitioner salary for the period of two years. Petition stands disposed of. June 3, 2011(ss) (Surjit Singh), J.