1 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 1711 of 2025 1 - Dev Lal S/o Late Manglu Ram Aged About 66 Years R/o House No. 178, Ward No. 11, Village - Mayana, Tahsil Charama, Kanker, District North Baster, Kanker Chhattisgarh. 2 - Daya Ram Sinha S/o Late Banthoo Ram Aged About 66 Years R/o House No. 132, Schoolpara, Village Mayana, Tahsil Charama, District North Baster, Kanker Chhattisgarh. 3 - Banshi Lal Yadav S/o Late G.R. Yadav Aged About 63 Years R/o Village Kochwahi, District Balod Chhattisgarh. ... Petitioners versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Water Resource Department, Mahanadi Bhawan, Atal Nagar, New Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh. 2 - The Executive Engineer Water Resource Department, Division Kanker, District North Baster, Kanker Chhattisgarh. 3 - Treasury Officer Treasury Account And Pension, Kanker, District North Baster, Kanker Chhattisgarh. ... Respondents (Cause-title taken from the Case Information System) VISHAKHA BEOHAR Digitally signed by VISHAKHA BEOHAR 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Petitioners :- Mr. Manoj Chauhan, Advocate For State :- Ms. Akansha Verma, P.L. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SB- Hon'ble Shri Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad Order On Board 11.03.2025 1. By way of this writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for following reliefs:- “10.1 That, this Hon'ble court may kindly be pleased to issue an appropriate writ, thereby directing the respondent authorities to consider and grant the benefit of leave encashment to the petitioners as per the order dated 30.09.2022 passed by this Hon'ble court in identical case (Faguvaram Patel & others Vs State of Chhattisgarh), within stipulated. 10.2 Any other relief, which this Hon'ble Court may deem fit.” 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are retired employees of the respondent department, who were working as class-IV employees in the Water Resources Department. He submits that in the light of judgment passed by this Court in Writ Petition (S) No.3870 of 2021 (Faguvaram Patel & Ors. Vs. State of Chhattisgarh & Ors.) and other connected matters decided on 30.09.2022, the petitioners were entitled for leave encashment. 3. Learned State counsel submits that sufficient documents have not been filed by the petitioners and it is also not reflected as to 3 whether the petitioners have completed the minimum period of the service to avail the benefit of leave encashment. 4. I have heard learned counsel for parties and perused the documents available in record. 5. Be that as it may, without commenting anything on the merits, this petition is disposed off giving liberty to the petitioners to make detailed representation before the concerned respondent / competent authority within the period of ‘30 days’ from the date of receipt of copy of this order with all necessary documents to substantiate their claim. In the event of filing of representation, on due verification, if the petitioners are found to be similarly situated persons, as in the case of Faguvaram Patel (supra), their claim shall be decided by the respondents in light of judgment of Faguvaram Patel (Supra) expeditiously preferably within the period of ‘90 days’ from the date of submission of the said representation. 6. Accordingly, this petition stands disposed off with aforesaid observations and directions. Sd/- (Amitendra Kishore Prasad) Judge Vishakha