IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11651 of 2001 Date of Decision : September 07, 2010. Gurpal Singh and others .....Petitioners versus Union of India and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.G.P.Vashisht, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.D.R.Mahajan, Advocate, for Mr.V.K.Sharma, Advocate, for the respondent UOI. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioners seek a mandamus to direct the respondents to regularise their services and also grant them the pay scale(s) as admissible to their regular counterparts. The petitioners are working as Instructors in different subjects in the Community Polytechnic Wing, J.R.Polytechnic, Hoshiarpur. They were appointed on different dates through the Employment Exchange and are working as such continuously since the years 1987 and 1990. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that similar controversy pertaining to the pay scale(s) of the Instructors working in Mehar Chand Polytechnic, Jalandhar, came up for C.W.P.No .11651 of 2001 2 consideration before a Division Bench of this Court in the case of Anu Lumba versus Union of India (2001 (3) S.C.T.234), which was allowed to the extent that the respondent-authorities were directed to pay the minimum emoluments of Rs.5500/- per month to the petitioner w.e.f. 1.8.1998, besides a further direction to the respondents to create regular posts and regularize the services of the petitioner. The respondents, including Principal Mehar Chand Polytechnic approached the Hon'ble Supreme Court and their appeal was allowed in part vide judgment dated 8.8.2006 reported as 2006 (7) SCC 161 (Principal, Mehar Chand Polytechnic and another versus Anu Lumba and others) and the directions issued by this Court for creation of posts and regularization of services of the similar situated Instructor were set-aside but the grant of minimum emoluments of Rs.5500/- per month w.e.f. 1.8.1998 were upheld. The present writ petition is accordingly allowed in terms of the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Principal, Mehar Chand Polytechni's case (supra). The needful shall be done within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Dasti. September 07, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE