IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 9491 of 2011 Date of Decision: 14.09.2011 Balwant Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present : Mr. R.K.Arora, Advocate for Mr. Ranjivan Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Monika Chibbar Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab **** SURYA KANT, J.(Oral) The petitioner was a Work Charge employee who served the respondent-department for more than 24 years. He now prays for the regularization of his services in view of the Government Policy Circular dated 15.12.2006 with all consequential retiral benefits by treating him a 'regular employee' under the provisions of Punjab Civil Services Rules. The respondents have filed their reply/affidavit informing that services of the petitioner have since been regularized vide an order dated 30.05.2011(Annexure R-1/T) in accordance with the Government Policy dated 15.12.2006. CWP No. 9491 of 2011 [2] Since the petitioner has retired as a regular employee w.e.f. 31.5.2011, he is entitled to all the retiral benefits including pension for the entire service rendered by him firstly on work charge basis and/then on regular basis. The petitioner appears to have retired from the office of Executive Engineer, Drainage Division, Hoshiarpur w.e.f. 31.05.2011. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the Executive Engineer, Drainage Division, Hoshiarpur (Punjab) to complete the service record of the petitioner, obtain the pension papers duly filled in and submit his case for the release of retiral benefits within a period of one month. The retiral dues shall be released to the petitioner within a period of two months thereafter i.e. within three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order, failing which the petitioner shall be entitled to interest @ 7% per annum on the retiral dues. Dasti. 14.09.2011 (SURYA KANT) 'ravinder' JUDGE