IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 5921 of 1988 (O&M) Date of Decision : 18.11.2010. Jarnail Singh and others ...... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another .... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH. Present:- Ms. Alka Chatrath, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. V.K.Jindal, Addl. AG. Punjab, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH, J.(ORAL) Learned counsel for the petitioners and State Counsel have urged that this petition be disposed of in terms of judgments dated February 21st, 1986 passed by this Court in Civil Writ Petition No. 2632 of 1985 – Vidya Sagar Singla and others Vs. The State of Punjab and another and dated June 7th, 1991 passed in Civil Writ Petition No. 11758 of 1989 titled Jaswinder Kaur and another Vs. The State of Punjab and others (Annexures A/1 and A/2 respectively). Against the judgment dated February 21st, 1986 (A/1), the State of Punjab filed Civil Appeal Nos. 960 and 961 of 1987 and the Hon`ble Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeals of State of Punjab by order dated April 8th, 1987 (Annexure A/3). In view of the above, this writ petition is disposed of in terms of aforesaid judgments in Vidya Sagar Singla's and Jaswinder Kaur's cases (supra) (Annexures A/1 and A/2 respectively) and as such, the petitioners are held entitled to advance increments of pay in the light of letter dated September Ist, 1960 (Annexure P-2), if they fall in the respective categories mentioned therein. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE November 18, 2010. som