IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 09.07.2025 Parmod Kumar ...Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Mazlish Khan, Advocate for the petitioner(s).

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

1. Challenge in the present petition is to the order dated 09.10.2024 passed by respondent No.2 viz. Director, State Transport, Haryana, whereby the appeal preferred by the petitioner has been dismissed, as well as to the order dated 09.12.2015 passed by respondent No.4 viz. General Manager, Haryana State Transport, Panipat whereby the punishment of reduction in pay scale and time scale for a period of three years, along with the denial of annual increments during the said period, was imposed upon the petitioner, apart from restricting the suspension period to subsistence allowance only.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner contends that the petitioner was appointed as a Conductor in the office of respondent No.3, viz., the Transport Commissioner, Haryana, on a contractual basis in the year 1993, and his services were regularised in the year 1995. It is submitted that th