IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No.1914 of 2023 Decided on: 5th January, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anil Kumar Sharma …..Petitioner Versus Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing & Processing Corporation Limited .....Respondent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coram Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioner: Mr. Parkash Sharma, Advocate. For the Respondent: Mr. Amit Sharma, Advocate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge Following order was passed in this matter on 29.10.2025:- “Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the issue raised by the petitioner in this writ petition has already been adjudicated upon in CWP No.2473 of 2022 (Sh. Salig Ram Chauhan Versus Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation Ltd and another), decided on 04.07.2023 and CWP No.8242 of 2022 (Ramesh Chand Chauhan Versus Horticulture Produce Marketing Corporation (HPMC) and others), decided alongwith connected matters on 04.11.2023. Learned counsel for the respondent seeks and is allowed a week’s time to have instructions in the matter. 1Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes. 2 List during the week commencing from 10.11.2025.” 2. Pursuant to above order, learned counsel for the respondent-Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing & Processing Corporation Limited (HPMC) has placed on record instructions statedly received by him from the respondent through e-mail and on that basis submits that the decisions rendered in Sh. Salig Ram Chauhan Versus Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Produce Marketing & Processing Corporation Ltd and another2 and Ramesh Chand Chauhan Versus Horticulture Produce Marketing Corporation (HPMC) and others3 are squarely applicable to the relief claimed by the petitioner in the present writ petition. Learned counsel also submits that the aforesaid decisions in Salig Ram Chauhan2 and Ramesh Chand Chauhan3 have been implemented by the respondent-Corporation by releasing the due and admissible monetary benefits to the petitioners therein. Learned counsel for the respondent also submitted that the respondent is presently releasing the benefit as claimed by the petitioner only to those, who are approaching the Court and pursuant to the directions 2 CWP No.2473 of 2022, decided on 04.07.2023 3 CWP No.8242 of 2022, decided alongwith connected matters on 04.11.2023 3 issued by the Court in such matters. That the respondent shall abide by the directions issued in the case of present petitioner in light of the decisions already rendered on the subject in Salig Ram Chauhan2, which has attained finality and has already been implemented by the respondent. 3. In view of above admitted position by the respondent that the case of the petitioner for the relief claimed by him is covered under the aforesaid decision rendered in Salig Ram Chauhan2, which has attained finality and has already been implemented by the respondent-Corporation, this writ petition is disposed of with the direction that the findings and directions issued in the aforesaid case shall mutatis mutandis apply to the case of the present petitioner as well. The writ petition stands disposed of in the above terms, so also the pending miscellaneous application(s), if any. Jyotsna Rewal Dua January 05, 2026 Judge Mukesh