Sr. No. 16 HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT JAMMU SWP No. 247/2016 Arvind Sharma …. Petitioner/Appellant(s) Through:- None V/s State of J&K and others …..Respondent(s) Through:- None CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV KUMAR, JUDGE ORDER 20.12.2025 1. None for the parties. 2. In this petition, the petitioner has inter-alia prayed for a direction to the respondents to regularize his services as Chowkidar. It is submitted that the petitioner came to be engaged as Chowkidar on payment of consolidated salary of Rs. 1500/- per month in the year 2001. Having regard to the satisfactory services performed by the petitioner, his case was recommended by the Joint Director Information, Jammu, to the Director of Information, J&K Government, for regularization in terms of communication dated 19.03.2005. The short grievance projected by the petitioner is that though his case was recommended for regularization in the years 2005 and he was allowed to continue in service, yet no decision was taken by the competent authority to appoint him on permanent basis. He came to this Court in the year 2012 by way of SWP No. 2026/2012, which was disposed of by this Court vide order dated 18.09.2012, directing SWP NO. 247/2016 the respondents to accord consideration to the case of petition for regularization of his services. He submits that he was not regularized though he had rendered more than 15 years of service. It is in these background facts, that the petitioner has filed the instant writ petition. 3. This petition came up for consideration on 17.02.2016 when this Court, while issuing notice to respondents for filing objections, also directed the respondents, by way of an interim order, to accord consideration to the regularization case of the petitioner in accordance with rules, on the analogy of similarly situated persons. 4. It is further not on record as to whether the case of the petitioner has been accorded consideration and his services have been regularized or not. Be that as it may, the fact remains that the petitioner has not taken any steps to pursue this petition since February, 2016, when it was first listed before this Court. Otherwise also, the final relief prayed for by the petitioner in this petition stands granted vide interim order 17.02.2016. There is thus no reason or justification to keep this petition pending. 5. Accordingly, this petition is disposed of with a direction to respondents to accord consideration to the case of the petition for regularization of the services on the analogy of similarly situated persons as also in accordance with the rules issued by respondents from time to time, provided he has not already been considered and regularized. (SANJEEV KUMAR) JUDGE Jammu: 20.12.2025 Shafqat