IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No.8358 of 2025 a/w CWP No.8368 of 2025 Decided on: 21st May, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CWP No.8358 of 2025 Kahan Singh …..Petitioner Versus H.P. State Forest Corporation & Anr. .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. CWP No.8368 of 2025 Lachhi Ram …..Petitioner Versus H.P. State Forest Corporation & Anr. .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coram Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioners: Mr. A.K. Gupta and Mr. Bonit Thakur, Advocates. For the Respondents: Ms. Kiran Dhiman, Advocate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge Notice. Ms. Kiran Dhiman, learned counsel, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of the respondents. 2. Petitioners are serving in the respondent-H.P. State Forest Development Corporation and have prayed for 1Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes. 2 direction to the respondents to grant them work charge status from the date they completed eight years of service with all incidental benefits. 3. Learned counsel for the parties have jointly submitted that the issue involved in the writ petitions and the reliefs 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. The respondent-Corporation was also the appellant before the Hon’ble Supreme Court in some of the connected matters. Learned counsel for the parties also submit that these writ petitions be disposed of in terms of the directions issued in the aforesaid decision. 4. In view of the stand taken by learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the aforesaid judgment, these writ petitions are disposed of with direction to the respondents/competent authority to consider 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. 2 Civil Appeal No.1595 of 2025, decided alongwith connected civil appeals on 06.02.2025 3 The writ petitions stand disposed of in the above terms, so also the pending miscellaneous application(s), if any. Jyotsna Rewal Dua May 21, 2025 Judge Mukesh