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Thereafter, one Sh. Nathu Singh approached this Court by filing CWP No. 26716 of 2014 seeking the same relief as being claimed by the petitioners herein that the service, which Sh. Nathu Singh had rendered with the Haryana State Minor Irrigation Tubewell Corporation, should be counted as a qualifying service for the grant of the pensionary benefits. The said writ petition was allowed by the learned Single Judge on 27.09.2016. The claim was allowed and a direction was issued to the respondents to count the said service which Sh. Nathu Singh had rendered with the HSMITC before being retrenched. Against the said judgment, State of Haryana preferred an LPA No. 1105 of 2017. The Division Bench considered all the facts including the Policy issued by the respondent-State on 21.06.2006 and the Policy dated 07.01.2002 in terms of which the service rendered in a non-pensionable organization before absorption was sought to be counted as a qualifying service for the grant of pensionary benefits. Division Bench held that as the appointment in pursuance to the Notification dated 21.06.2006 was a fresh appointment, no benefit of past service could be granted to the employees. The relevant paragraph of the said judgment is as under:-