1 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 4286 of 2025 1 - Bahoran Lal Yadav S/o. Chhunnu Yadav Aged About 66 Years R/o. Ward No. 46, Guru Vihar Colony, New Sarkanda, Bilaspur, Dist. Bilaspur (C.G.) (Retired Employee Claiming Leave Enchashment For Himself) 2 - Raman Singh Yadav S/o. Kushno Aged About 62 Years R/o. Irrigation Colony, Darri, Ward No. 35, Jamnipali, Dist. Korba (C.G.) (Retired Employee Claiming Leave Enchashment For Himself) 3 - Harpal Das S/o. Suklal Das Aged About 63 Years R/o. Mahant Mohalla, Kotmer, Dist. Korba (C.G.) (Retired Employee Claiming Leave Enchashment For Himself) 4 - Chhoturam Kewat S/o. Parmaram Aged About 62 Years R/o. A1/4, Sinchai Colony, Darri, Post - Jamnipali, Dist. Korba (C.G.) (Retired Employee Claiming Leave Enchashment For Himself) 5 - Siya Ram Jaiswal S/o. Bhulau Ram Jaiswal Aged About 63 Years R/o. Irrigation Colony, Darri, Post- Jamnipali, Dist. Korba (C.G.) (Retired Employee Claiming Leave Enchashment For Himself) ... Petitioner(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of Water Resource, Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur, Dist. Raipur (C.G.) 2 - The Secretary Department Of General Administration, Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur, Dist. Raipur (C.G.) 3 - The Secretary Department Of Finance, Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur, Dist. Raipur (C.G.) 4 - Engineer-In-Chief Water Resource Department, Shivnath Bhawan, Sector-19, Naya Raipur, Dist. Raipur (C.G.) 5 - Chief Engineer Water Resource Division, Bilaspur, Dist. Bilaspur (C.G.) 6 - Superintendent Engineer E/m, Water Resource Circle, Sakri, Bilaspur, Dist. Bilaspur (C.G.) 7 - Executive Engineer E/m Heavy Machinery Division, Water Resource Department, Sakri, Bilaspur, Dist.- Bilaspur (C.G.) 8 - Executive Engineer E/m Heavy Machinery Division, Water Resource Department, Darri, Dist. Korba (C.G.) ... Respondent(s) For Petitioner : Ms. Akanksha Singh, Advocate. For State : Shri Vinay Pandey, Dy. Advocate General. Hon’ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, J Order on Board 12.06 .202 5 1. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that the petitioners stood retired as Work Charged/Contingency Paid Employee. The petitioners 2 were entitled for leave encashment but till date the respondents have not extended the benefit of leave encashment. He stated that an identical issue has already been decided by this Court in Writ Petition (S) No.3870 of 2021 (Faguvaram Patel & Ors. Vs. State of Chhattisgarh & Others) on 30.09.2022. In the light of Faguvaram (supra) the petitioner have raised identical issue which may be allowed. He submits that at this stage the petitioners may be permitted to submit detailed representation before the respondents/competent authority, who, in turn, may be directed to consider and decide the same expeditiously within specific period as fixed by this Court. 2. Learned State counsel submits that as the petitioners are not pressing this petition on merits and is only seeking a direction to decide the representation to be submitted by petitioner, at this stage the State is having no objection. 3. I have heard learned counsel for parties and perused the documents available on record. 4. Taking into consideration the limited prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioners, without commenting anything on the merits this petition is disposed of in the light of judgment passed in Faguvaram Patel (Supra) reserving liberty to the petitioners to make detailed representation before the concerned respondent/competent authority. In the event, the petitioners submit representation, the same shall be considered and decided in accordance with the relevant rules and law and after verification of the service records of the petitioners expeditiously preferably within the period of 'three months' from the date of receipt of the such representation keeping in mind the decision passed in Faguvaram Patel (Supra). 5. Accordingly, this petition is disposed of with the aforesaid observations and directions. Sd/- (Ravindra Kumar Agrawal) Judge inder