Chandigarh, Oct. 5 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed the plea of a retired lab attendant of a Haryana government-aided college seeking a higher pay scale and consequential revision of pension, holding that a long-pending service dispute cannot be revived years after retirement by presenting it as a pension claim.

Justice Harpreet Singh Brar, while dismissing the petition filed by Kundan Lal, observed that a wrong fixation of pay constitutes a continuing cause of action only as long as an employee remains in service. Once an employee retires, the alleged wrong in pay fixation crystallises into a completed act, and a claim raised after substantial delay cannot ordinarily be revived merely because it affects the pension.

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