IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.15430 of 1989 (O&M) Date of decision:23.03.2011 Joginder Pal Singh and others ....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Subhash Ahuja, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms. Rita Kohli, Additional Advocate General, Punjab. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No. 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No. 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No. ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) The issue raised in the writ petition is concluded through an earlier judgment of this Court in CWP No.376 of 2000 where the Division Bench of this Court held that ad hoc employees were entitled to be given premature increment for their non-participation in the strike called by certain government employees on 08.02.1978. The writ petition is allowed and a mandamus is issued to the respondents to grant the benefit of premature increment to the petitioners irrespective of the fact that they were ad hoc employees at the relevant time. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 23.03.2011 sanjeev