IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No.21002 of 2025 Decided on: 2nd January, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suresh Chand and another …..Petitioners Versus State of H.P. and another .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coram Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioners: Mr. Abhimanyu Rathor, Advocate. For the Respondents: Mr. Rajat Choudhry, Assistant Advocate General. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge Notice. Mr. Rajat Choudhry, learned Assistant Advocate General, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of the respondents. 2. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, the matter is heard at this stage. 3. Petitioners are serving in the respondent-Health Department and have prayed for direction to the respondents to grant them work charge status from the date they completed eight years of service with all incidental benefits. 1 Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes. 2 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the issue involved in the writ petition and the relief prayed for by the petitioners are now covered by the decision rendered by the Hon’ble Apex Court in The State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. Versus Surajmani & Anr.2. Learned counsel further submits that the petitioners would be satisfied in case the respondents are directed to examine their cases in light of the aforesaid judgment within a fixed time schedule. Learned Assistant Advocate General is not averse to this prayer. 5. Having regard to the afore-submissions, but without examining the merits of the matter, this writ petition is disposed of with direction to the respondents/ competent authority to consider and decide the respective cases of the petitioners in accordance with law laid down in Surajmani2 and pass appropriate order in accordance with law within six weeks from today. Copy of the order so passed, be also communicated to the petitioners. The writ petition stands disposed of in the above terms, so also the pending miscellaneous application(s), if any. Jyotsna Rewal Dua January 02, 2026 Judge Mukesh 2 Civil Appeal No.1595 of 2025, decided alongwith connected civil appeals on 06.02.2025