IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No. 11340 of 2009 & connected petitions (O&M) Date of Decision: January 18, 2011 Manoj Kumar and others …Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others …Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE T.P.S. MANN Present: Mr. Ramesh Goel, Advocate, Mr. J.S. Maanipur, Advocate, Mr. R.K. Arora, Advocate, Mr. S.K. Bhardwaj, Advocate, for the petitioner(s). Mr. Piyush Kant Jain, Addl. AG, Punjab, and Mr. Suvir Sehgal, Addl. AG, Punjab, for the respondents. 1. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? M.M. KUMAR, J. 1. By this order we propose to dispose of a bunch of 13 petitions*. The short issue raised in these petitions is whether the petitioner(s) who are working on daily wage/work charge basis on various posts with the respondent(s) are entitled to the minimum of the pay scale, which is admissible to their counterparts who are drawing regular pay scales. In some of the petitions the petitioner(s) CWP No. 11340 of 2009 & connected petitions (O&M) have also claimed the relief of regularisation of their services. The prayer of grant of minimum of the pay scales has been made on the basis of doctrine of ‘equal pay for equal work’. The basis of the claim made by the petitioner(s) is that they are entitled to get the same relief as has been given to the similarly situated persons, who are working on similar posts, in the same department and also doing the same nature of work on daily wage basis. 2. On 25.5.2010, when this bunch of petitions was listed before a learned Single Judge of this Court, the same were admitted and ordered to be listed along with LPA No. 466 of 2009. It is pertinent to mention here that LPA No. 466 of 2009 and number of other appeals involving similar question of law were disposed of by the Letters Patent Bench (of which one of us, M.M. Kumar, J. was also a member) on 30.8.2010 by rendering judgment in L.P.A. No. 1024 of 2009 (State of Punjab and others v. Rajinder Kumar and others). Accordingly, the petitioners in C.W.P. No. 11340 of 2009 filed C.M. No. 17353 of 2010 for deciding the writ petition in terms of the judgment dated 30.8.2010 passed in the case of Rajinder Kumar (supra). On 14.1.2010, we have issued notice of the said application and also directed the Registry to list all other writ petitions, as mentioned in para 1 of the said application. 3. At the hearing, learned State counsel have not been able to raise any serious dispute that the matter is covered by the judgment dated 30.8.2010 passed in the case of Rajinder Kumar (supra). 4. Having heard learned counsel for the parties we find that the issue as noticed in the opening para of this order is no longer res 2 CWP No. 11340 of 2009 & connected petitions (O&M) integra and the same is squarely covered by the Letters Patent judgment dated 30.8.2010 passed in the case of Rajinder Kumar (supra) and no detailed discussion is required. Accordingly, this bunch of petitions is disposed of in terms of Letters Patent judgment dated 30.8.2010 passed in the case of Rajinder Kumar (supra). 5. A photocopy of this order be placed on the files of connected cases. (M.M. KUMAR) JUDGE (T.P.S. MANN) January 18, 2011 JUDGE Pkapoor * Sr. No. CWP No. Parties Name 1. 21199 of 2008 Darshan Singh v. State of Punjab and others 2. 21703 of 2008 Khushal Chand and others v. State of Punjab and others 3. 166 of 2009 Harish Kumar and others v. State of Punjab and others 4. 3705 of 2009 Bhagwan Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others 5. 5211 of 2009 Balraj Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others 6. 8172 of 2009 Ranjit Singh v. v. State of Punjab and others 7. 8238 of 2009 Baljor Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others 8. 10670 of 2009 Narinder Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others 9. 11340 of 2009 Manoj Kumar and others v. State of Punjab and others 10. 11385 of 2009 Lachhman Dass and others v. State of Punjab and others 3 CWP No. 11340 of 2009 & connected petitions (O&M) 11. 11405 of 2009 Kamaljit and others v. State of Punjab and others 12. 14835 of 2009 Tarlok Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others 13. 2797 of 2010 Jasvir Singh and others v. State of Punjab and others (M.M. KUMAR) JUDGE (T.P.S. MANN) January 18, 2011 JUDGE Pkapoor 4