1 / 3 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 2002 of 2026 1 - Smt. Uma Bagga W/o Late Pradeep Bagga, Aged About 63 Years Retired Akushal Sahayak Posted At Office Of S.D.O. (E And M) Light Machinery Nalkoop And Gate Sub Division Sakri (Bilaspur) Water Resources Department District- Bilaspur (C.G.) R/o Asma City Phase -Ii Post Sakri District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 2 - Ramcharan Kashyap S/o Late Jodhan Ram Kashyap Aged About 63 Years Retired Sahayak Fitter Posted At Office Of S.D.O. (E And M) Light Machinery Nalkoop And Gate Sub Division Sakri (Bilaspur) Water Resources Department District- Bilaspur (C.G.) R/o Village And Post Sankhan Devari Tahsil And District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 3 - Roop Singh S/o Late Mohit Ram Aged About 64 Years Retired Sahayak Fitter Posted At Office Of S.D.O. (E And M) Light Machinery Nalkoop And Gate Sub Division No. 1 Sakti Water Resources Department District- Sakti (C.G.) R/o Village And Post Kambli Tahsil And District- Sakti (C.G.) 4 - Shree Ram Dhani S/o Jokhu Ram Aged About 70 Years Retired Chowkidar Posted At Office Of Executive Engineer Jal Sanshadhan Division Baikunthpur Water Resource Department District- Koriya (C.G.) R/o Village Sunderganj Post Kalyanpur Tahsil Surajpur District- Surguja (C.G.) 5 - Purshottam Das Vaishnav S/o Late Shyam Das Vaishnav Aged About 63 Years Retired Sthal Sahayak Posted At Office Of S.D.O. Jal Sanshadhan Sub Division No. 6 Sakri Water Resources Department District- Sakri (C.G.) R/o L.I.G. Dindayal Awas Colony Village And Post Saida (Sakri) Tahsil Sakri District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 6 - Smt. Radh Nirmalkar W/o Late Ram Lal Nirmalkar Aged About 56 Years R/o Village Mendhra, Post Sakri Tahsil Takhatpur District- Bilaspur (C.G.) Husband Of Petitioner Was Retired Chowkidar Posted At Office Of Assistant 2 / 3 Engineer (Rupankan) Kharang Jal Sanshadhan Division Bilaspur Water Resources Department District - Bilaspur (C.G.) ... Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Secretary, Department Of Water Resources Mahanadi Bhawan, Mantralaya, New Raipur District- Raipur (C.G.) 2 - Engineer In Chief Water Resource Department, Sihawa Bhawan, New Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) 3 - Chief Engineer Hasdev Kachhar Water Resource Department, Bilaspur District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 4 - Chief Engineer Hasdeo Ganga Kachhar Department Of Water Resources Ambikapur, District- Surguja (C.G.) 5 - Excutive Engineer (E And M) Light Machinery Nalkoop And Gate Division Sakri (Bilaspur) Water Resources Department District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 6 - Executive Engineer Jal Sanshadhan Division Baikunthpur Water Resources Department District- Koriya (C.G.) 7 - Executive Engineer Kharang Jal Sanshadhan Division Bilaspur Water Resources Department District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 8 - Joint Director, Pension And Account Treasury Department Bilaspur Division District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 9 - Joint Director, Pension And Account Treasury Department Surguja Division, District- Surguja (C.G.) ... Respondent(s) For Petitioners : Ms. Mamta Mahilange, Advocate For Respondent-State : Ms. Apurva Nigam, P.L. Hon'ble Shri Parth Prateem Sahu, Judge ORDER ON BOARD 24/02/2026 1. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that the petitioners who stood retired as Work Charged and Contingency Paid Employees, is entitled for leave encashment but till date respondents have not extended the benefit of leave encashment to petitioners. Identical issue came up for hearing before this 3 / 3 Court in case of Faguvaram Patel & Ors. vs. State of C.G., in W.P.(S) No. 3870 of 2021 decided on 30.09.2022, wherein petitioners therein have raised identical issue which was allowed in their favour. He submits that at this stage, petitioners may be permitted to submit representation in light of Faguvaram Patel (supra) and respondents be directed to decide the representation to be submitted by petitioners expeditiously within specified time. 2. Learned State counsel submits that as petitioners are not pressing this petition on merits and is only seeking a direction to decide the representation to be submitted by petitioners, he is having no objection. 3. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the documents available on record. 4. Taking into consideration, the limited prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioners, this petition is disposed of permitting petitioners to submit fresh representations. In the event, petitioners submits representation, their claim shall be considered and decided in accordance with law expeditiously preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of representation keeping in mind decision in case of Faguvaram Patel (supra). 5. Accordingly, this petition is disposed of with aforesaid observations and directions. Sd/- (Parth Prateem Sahu) Saurabh JUDGE