( 2025:HHC:33176 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No. 15316 of 2025 Date of decision: 22.09.2025 Prem Singh ...Petitioner. Versus State of H.P. & Ors. ...Respondents. Coram: The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Satyen Vaidya, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 For the petitioner : Mr. Happy Thakur, Advocate. For respondents : Mr. Rajat Chaudhary, Assistant Advocate General. Satyen Vaidya, Judge (Oral): Notice. Mr. Rajat Chaudhary, learned Assistant Advocate General, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of the respondents/State. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he is under instructions to restrict the relief for direction to the competent authority to decide this representation (Annexure P-5) in time bound manner. He further submits that the case of the petitioner is squarely covered by the judgment passed by this Court on 22.03.2024, in CWP No. 1 Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? -2- ( 2025:HHC:33176 ) 7376 of 2023, titled as H.P. Secretariat & Other Affiliated Pensioner Welfare Association Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors., and the petitioner will be satisfied in case the pending representation (Annexure P-5) filed in this behalf is decided by respondent No. 3/Deputy Director Elementary Education, Mandi, in a time bound manner. 3. Prayer being innocuous is allowed. 4. Accordingly, without adverting to the merits of the case, directions are issued to respondent No. 3/Deputy Director Elementary Education, Mandi, to consider and decide the representation (Annexure P5) of the petitioner within eight weeks from today and decide the same by passing a detailed and reasoned order, strictly in terms of judgment passed in H.P. Secretariat & Other Affiliated Pensioner Welfare Association (supra). 5. The petition is accordingly disposed of along with pending miscellaneous application(s), if any. (Satyen Vaidya) 22nd September, 2025 Judge (Shamsh Tabrez)