CWP No.9297 of 2001 (O&M) 1 IN THE PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.9297 of 2001 (O&M) Date of Decision: 13.07.2010 Om Parkash ...Petitioner Versus The State of Haryana and others .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI Present: Mr. Sudhir Nar, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Parveen Gupta, Advocate for the respondents. ..... Permod Kohli, J. (Oral) The petitioner was initially engaged on work-charge basis with the Haryana State Electricity Board known as Nigam at that time. Thereafter, he was engaged with regular agency and has retired from service on attaining of age of superannuation on 31.07.2000. The grievance of the petitioner is that the service rendered towards work- charge is not being counted towards the service for the purpose of increments/retiral benefits. It is agreed by the learned counsel for the parties that the controversy involved in the present writ petition is no more res integra having been settled by a number of judgments Hon’ble Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No.4903 of 2009 titled Dakshni Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and others Vs. Bachan Singh, decided on 30.07.2009, upheld the Division Bench judgment of this Court on this issue. The aforesaid judgment in Bachan Singh’s case has been followed by this Court in CWP No.5945 of 2007 decided on 7.12.2009 with the following observation/directions:- CWP No.9297 of 2001 (O&M) 2 “Consequently, these writ petitions are allowed. The respondents are directed to allow the petitioners to exercise their option in accordance with the instructions within a period of three months from today, the respondents shall within a month thereafter inform the petitioners the amount of employee’s contribution towards EPF, which is required to be deposited by the petitioners which shall be deposited by the petitioners within two months thereafter, along with interest upto the date of retirement, as per the instructions dated 6.8.1993 as modified on 9.8.1994. After deposit of the amount along with interest by the petitioners, the respondents shall count the work charge serve rendered by the petitioner towards his pensionary benefits and release the enhanced pension along with arrears without any further delay.” This petition is accordingly disposed of in terms of the aforesaid judgment. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE 13.07.2010 sharmila