IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 15.01.2025 Pronounced on : 28.01.2025 Shamsher Singh ...Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. T.S. Dhull, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Tapan Kumar, DAG Haryana.

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J.

1. Prayer in the present petition is for issuance of a writ of Certiorari for quashing the decision of the respondents to pay salary to the petitioner through a service provider despite the petitioner being an employee of the respondent-department. Further prayer is to direct the respondents to grant minimum regular pay scale meant for the post of Patwari along with dearness allowance as well as arrears of salary from the initial date of appointment at the market rate of interest to the petitioner.

2. Briefly, the facts claimed by the petitioner are that he claims to be appointed by the respondents as a Canal Patwari on contractual basis in the year 2008. However, on 30.11.2009, his services were terminated by the respondents without giving any notice and without assigning any reasons.

3. The petitioner challenged the order of his termination before th