JUDGMENT

The respondent Mr. Gurdarshan Singh Grewal, B.A., L.L.B., a practising advocate of Punjab an Haryana High Court was appointed by order of the Governor on March 26, 1968 as part-time Administrator General and Official Trustee-cum-Treasurer Charitable Endowments subject to his being paid a salary of Rs. 300/ - as a part-time Administrator General and Official Trustee and Rs. 450/- as part-time Treasurer Charitable Endowments. The office of the Administrator General - Official Trustee and Treasurer Charitable Endowments have been set up under Administrator: Generals Act, 1963, Official Trustees Act, 1913 and Charitable Endowments Act, 1890. It is stated in the Pay Commissions Report of 1967-68 of the State of Punjab that the official being appointed from time to time on contract basis, the Commission declined to prescribe any pay scales to that office. However, for the staff of that office pay scales have been prescribed. When the petitioners appointment was terminated, he challenged by way of a writ petition and the learned single Judge in Writ Petition No. 6991 of 1975 dated 9-2-1983# held that the respondent was a Government servant and his termination violates Art. 311 of