Jai Parkash Dahiya Vs State of Haryana and Another — Punjab & Haryana HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Jai Parkash Dahiya Vs State of Haryana and Another — Punjab & Haryana HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Petition disposed of on consent without commenting on merits; respondent No.2 (Engineer-in-Chief, Haryana, PWD Public Health Engineering Department, Panchkula) directed to treat the petition as a representation and pass a reasoned and speaking order within three months of receipt of certified copy; any monetary benefit found due and payable to be disbursed within a further period of two months.

Issue for consideration

Whether government employees who retired on or before 30th of June after rendering more than six months of service are entitled to the annual increment in their year of retirement, and whether their pension should be re-fixed by granting such increment.

Ratio / Principle

The petition was disposed of with the consent of the parties and without commenting on the merits, by directing respondent No.2 (Engineer-in-Chief, Haryana, PWD Public Health Engineering Department, Panchkula) to treat the petition as a representation and pass a reasoned and speaking order within three months of receipt of the certified copy of the order.

Key takeaways

If upon consideration of the representation any monetary benefit is found due and payable to the petitioner, the same shall be disbursed in his favour within a further period of two months.ratio¶20

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Punjab and Haryana High Court (Vinod S. Bhardwaj, J., oral order dated 01.07.2025) in CWP-17002-2025 — Writ petition by a retired employee seeking directions to grant the annual increment to employees who retired on or before 30th June after rendering more than six months of service and to re-fix their pension accordingly. The Court, with the consent of both sides and expressly without commenting on the merits, disposed of the petition by directing respondent No.2, the Engineer-in-Chief, Haryana, PWD Public Health Engineering Department, Panchkula, to treat the petition as a representation and pass a reasoned and speaking order within three months of receipt of the certified copy; any monetary benefit found due and payable upon such consideration was ordered to be disbursed within a further period of two months.

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IN THE PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH

112 CWP-17002-2025 Date of Decision: 01.07.2025

JAI PARKASH DAHIYA

... Petitio n er

VERSUS

STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER

... Responde n ts

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ.

Present: M r. Rohit Kataria, Advocate for D r. Maha Singh Sindhu, Advoc a te the petitioner. ****

VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (ORAL)

P rayer in the present petition is for seeking directions to t he respondents t o grant increment to the petitio n ers who have retired on or bef o re 30^th of June, as the petitioners have rendere d more than six months of serv i ce and a furthe r prayer to direct the respond e nts to re-fix the pension of t he petitioners b y granting them annual incremen t in their year of retirement. A fter arguing at some length, l earned counsel for the petitio n er submits that t he petitioner would be satisfie d at this stage, in case respond e nt No.2-Engine e r-in-Chief, Haryana, PWD Public Health Engineer i ng

VISHAL SHARMA 2025.07.01 16:11 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document

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Department, Panchkula is directed to consi d er the case of the petitioner, by passing a spe a king order in a time bound ma n ner.

N otice of motion.

M r. Vikrant Pamboo, Addl. A.G. Haryana accepts notice on behalf of the respo n dents and prays for some time to complete instructions and f ile response, if n ecessary. He, however, does n o t have any objection to the ab o ve request.

A ccordingly, the present petitio n is disposed of with the consent of the parties a n d without commenting anythi n g on the merits of the case, by directing res p ondent No.2 to treat this petition as a representation and to pas s a reasoned and speaking order within a perio d of three months of the receipt of certified cop y of this order.

N eedless to mention that i f upon considering the s a id representatio n , in case any monetary benefi t is found due and payable to t he petitioner, th e same shall be disbursed in he r favour within a further period of two months.

(VINOD S. BHARDWAJ) JULY 01, 2025 JUDGE Vishal Sharma

Whether speaking/reason e d : Yes/No Whether reportable : Yes/No

VISHAL SHARMA 2025.07.01 16:11 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document