Gurmeet Singh vs State Of Punjab 2024 INSC 872 - Service Law - ACP Scheme -Proficiency Step-up Scheme

Service Law - High Court dismissed writ petitions preferred by the appellants for grant of benefits under the Proficiency Step-up Scheme, 1988 and Assured Career Progression Scheme, 1998, by accounting for their entire service
period including that in the work charged establishment - Allowing appeal, SC observed: The fundamental distinction in the present case is that the Policy
Circular whereby, the services of the appellants were regularised, gave a clear mandate that the services of the work charge employees would be regularised, and the past services of such employees would be treated as qualifying service for pensionary and all other consequential benefits. The High Court seems to have overlapped the Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACPS), 1998 and the Proficiency Step-up Scheme, 1988 for denying relief to the appellants which is not justifiable by any stretch of imagination.