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SUVIR SEHGAL
Satnam Singh – Appellant
Versus
Punjab State – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
SUVIR SEHGAL, J.
1. Plaintiff-appellant is before this Court in the instant second appeal seeking modification of the judgments and decrees passed by both the Courts below.
2. Satnam Singh, plaintiff-appellant, filed a suit a verring that initially he was engaged as a Work Charged Project Sectional Officer in the Provincial Sub Division , PWD (B&R), Mukerian, District Hoshiarpur from August, 1968 to 30.06.1970 before joining regular appointment with the same department. He retired on 30.11.2000 from the post of JE/EAE (Extra Assistant Engineer) with an unblemished service record. He claimed that he has been denied the benefit of the work charged service rendered by him and it has not been counted towards his pensionary benefits. He pleaded that there was a delay in the release of commutation of pension, leave encashment, gratuity and other retiral benefits. Payment of missing credit of GPF for some months was pending. He filed a suit for declaration to the effect that the entire service from August, 1968 till his superannuation should be counted towards pension and other service benefits along with consequential benefits and interest on the delayed payment. Upon notice, sui
The main legal point established in the judgment is that work-charged service rendered by an employee prior to regularisation should be counted as qualifying service for the purposes of pension, base....
Pension – Work Charged Employees – Denying of pension after rendering service as work charged for number of years on the ground that they have not completed qualifying service can be said to be unfai....
Daily wage employees' service must be counted for pension eligibility, ensuring non-discriminatory treatment under retirement benefit regulations.
Work charge status followed by regular appointment must be counted as qualifying service for pension benefits, overriding contrary executive instructions.
Pension – Not having work charge establishment – Held, entitled for pension.
Once work charge employment of the petitioner is held liable to be counted for the grant of pensionary benefits to him, as a natural corollary, he will be governed under CCS Pension Rules, 1972 and t....
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