IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision :08.01.2025 Bhupinder Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI Present: Ms. Manveen Kahlon, Advocate for the petitioners.

Ms. Shruti, AAG, Punjab.

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Harsimran Singh Sethi, J. (Oral)

1. In the present petition, the claim of the petitioners is that their total length of service including the daily wage service be treated as qualifying service for computing the pensionary benefits and they be allowed the benefit of judgment of this Court in CWP-2371-2010 titled as Harbans Lal vs. State of Punjab and others, decided on 31.08.2010 wherein it has been held that any employee, who was in service before 01.01.2004, will be covered by the Old Pension Scheme even if, his/her services have been regularized after the said date.

have been granted the benefit under the Old Pension Scheme but their total length of service has not been taken into account for computing their pensionary benefits, which is causing prejudice to them.

nothing has come on record that total length of service of the petitioners has not been taken into account for com