IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No.5972 of 2025 a/w CWP No.5978 of 2025 Decided on: 11th April, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CWP No.5972 of 2025 Rachna and another …..Petitioners Versus State of H.P. and others .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. CWP No.5978 of 2025 Monika Vardhan …..Petitioner Versus State of H.P. and others .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coram Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioners: Mr. Jai Dev Thakur, Advocate. For the Respondents: Mr. Anup Rattan, Advocate General with Mr. L.N. Sharma, Additional Advocate General. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge Notice. Mr. L.N. Sharma, learned Additional Advocate General, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of the respondents. 1Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes. 2 2. These writ petitions have been filed for the grant of almost identical reliefs. The substantive reliefs in CWP No.5972 of 2025 read as under:- “I. That an appropriate writ, order or direction may kindly be issued directing the respondents to extend the benefits of higher stage of pay under Rule 7(A) of the Himachal Pradesh Civil Services (Revised Pay) First Amendment Rules, 2022 notified on dated 6.09.2022 (Annexure P-4) and fix the pay of the petitioners at the higher stage of pay i.e. Rs.41,300/- with effect from the date of completion of two years of regular service as Staff Nurse, in the interest of justice. II. That an appropriate writ, order or direction may kindly be issued directing the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioners after completion of two years of regular service on contract basis in terms of the regularization policy, in the interest of justice.” 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the reliefs prayed for by the petitioners and the issues raised by them in the writ petitions are squarely covered in terms of the recent decision rendered in Mohit Sharma & Anr. Versus State of H.P. & Ors.2. Learned counsel further submits that the petitioners would be content in case the respondents are directed to examine their respective cases in light of the aforesaid judgment within a fixed time schedule. Learned Additional Advocate General is not averse to this prayer. 2 CWP No.1638 of 2024, decided on 29.11.2024 3 4. Having regard to the afore-submissions, but without examining the merits of the matters, these writ petitions are disposed of with a direction to the respondents/competent authority to consider and decide the respective cases of the petitioners in accordance with law as well as taking into consideration the above judgment in the case of Mohit Sharma2 by passing appropriate orders, within a period of six weeks from today. The decision so arrived at shall also be communicated to the petitioners. The writ petitions stand disposed of in the above terms, so also the pending miscellaneous application(s), if any. Jyotsna Rewal Dua April 11, 2025 Judge Mukesh