DR. RAJNI KAPOOR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner was appointed as Lecturer on August 14,1978 on ad hoc basis and in this regard experience certificate was given by the Princi -pal, Nehru College Jhajjar, copy Annexure PI. The petitioner continued to work on ad hoc basis on the post of Lecturer in Hindi upto August 25, 1982 and on that day she was appointed on regular basis through the Haryana Public Service Commission.

(2.) THE services of the petitioner while working on ad hoc basis were discontinued before the summer vacations and after the summer vacations the employment on the same terms was reiterated. It is this act on the part of the government which was challenged by the petitioner along with many other Lecturers by way of filing CWP No. 8420 of 1989 and apart from the petitioner and the other Lecturers, a number of petitions had been filed by similarly situated Lecturers. The petition was allowed in terms of the decision rendered in CWP No. 4946 of 1998 and 13937 of 1998, which were decided on June 2,1989 and March 17, 1991, respectively. A categoric direction was given to the official respondents to pay the petitioners salary and other allowances for the period of summer vacations and additionally the petitioners were held to be entitled to other benefits like maternity leave, medical leave etc. in accordance with the prevailing rules. Copy of the order passed by a Division Bench of this Court reads as under : -

(3.) THE petitioner has neither been given the pension, provident fund, gratuity, GIC and other retiral benefits payable to the petitioner on account of having been relied on July 16, 1999 by having been voluntarily retired. Despite requests having been made and representation dated August 28, 1999, copy Annexure P8 having been submitted, no relief has been granted by the government. Disgruntled, dissatisfied and suffering harassment, the petitioner has filed the present petition. The petition was admitted vide order dated April 25, 2000 and posted before this Bench for directions.