Case brief
What is this about?
Delay and laches; stale claim; belated writ petition dismissed after 19 years; pay refixation/pay parity with minimum of regular pay scale; daily wager; regularization (joined 10.08.1986, regularized 05.01.2006); State of Punjab vs. Jagjit Singh, 2017(1) SCC 148; Rajinder Pal and others vs. State of Punjab and another, CWP No.25984 of 2015, order dated 13.04.2023; State of Punjab; Articles 226/227; CWP-1337-2025; High Court of Punjab and Haryana; Justice Jagmohan Bansal; decision dated 06.05.2025; reportable: No.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition is dismissed on the ground of delay: the petitioner approached this Court 19 years after the cause of action, and by order dated 13.04.2023 a Co-ordinate Bench had already dismissed a bunch of writ petitions, including 'Rajinder Pal', raising a similar claim after 12 years; petitioner's counsel expressed inability to controvert the applicability of that order to the facts of the present case. The merits of the claimed entitlement under Jagjit Singh were not adjudicated.