INDERJEET MALHOTRA Vs. STATE BANK OF PATIALA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking a direction to the respondents to consider the temporary service rendered by him with the bank from 16.1.1976 to 10.8.1981 for the purposes of retiral benefits.

(2.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the temporary service rendered by the petitioner before he was appointed on permanent basis with the bank was liable to be taken in consideration for pensionary benefits. Learned counsel has further submitted that the petitioner had earned due increments while he served the respondent bank on temporary basis.

(3.) ADMITTEDLY , petitioner had worked on temporary basis from 16.1.1976 to 10.8.1981. Petitioner was appointed with respondent -bank on permanent basis w.e.f. 11.8.1981. Petitioner was granted increments during the period of his temporary service. However, the period of temporary service rendered by the petitioner has not been rightly considered by the respondent bank for pensionary benefits.