P&H: Directs PSPCL to count work-charge service for pension, but limits arrears to 38 months
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled in favour of a retired PSPCL employee who sought pensionary benefits by counting his earlier work-charge and ad hoc service. The Court held that the service rendered from 1 February 1975 to 9 December 1981 had to be added to his qualifying service after regularisation.
Raghbir Singh had approached the Court after PSPCL declined to count his pre-regularisation service while fixing his pension. He argued that the refusal was contrary to Rule 3.17-A of the Punjab Civil Services Rules and relied on earlier judgments of the High Court supporting similar claims.
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