1 2025:CGHC:25628 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 4956 of 2025 1 - Keshav Ram Sinha S/o Kanhaiyalal Sinha Aged About 70 Years Retired Labour R/o Village Maleshar . Tehsil And District - Mahasamund (C.G.) 2 - Roop Lal Dhruw S/o Samaru Ram Aged About 65 Years Retired Labour R/o Khatti . Tehsil And District - Mahasamund (C.G.) 3 - Jagdish Ram Kewat S/o Thanwar Aged About 63 Years Retired Labour R/o Villag Khatti . Tehsil And District - Mahasamund (C.G.) --- Petitioner(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Water Resource Department Mahanadi Bhawan Atal Nagar Raipur (C.G.) 2 - Engineer In Chief Water Resource Department Raipur District - Raipur (C.G.) 3 - Chief Engineer Mahanadi Godawari Kachhar, Water Resource Department Raipur District - Raipur (C.G.) 4 - Executive Engineer Water Resource Division Mahasamund District - Mahasamund (C.G.) --- Respondent(s) WPS No. 5065 of 2025 1 - Sukrit Das S/o Sukhdev Das Aged About 67 Years R/o Village Dr. Rajendra Prasad Ward, Hospital Road Darripara Ambikapur, District Surguja Chhattisgarh 2 - Siyaram S/o Mandru Aged About 72 Years Retired Labour, R/o Village Belkota, Tehsil Batoli, District Surguja Chhattisgarh 3 - Ramjit Rajwade S/o Butul Rajwade Aged About 62 Years Retired Labour, R/o Village Bhittikala Tehsil Ambikapur, District Surguja Chhattisgarh VEDPRAKASH DEWANGAN Digitally signed by VEDPRAKASH DEWANGAN Date: 2025.06.19 18:30:02 +0530 2 ---Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Public Work Department, Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan Atal Nagar Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh 2 - Chief Engineer Public Work Department (National Highway) Raipur District Raipur Chhattisgarh 3 - Superintendent Engineer Public Works Department (National Highway) Bilaspur District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh 4 - Executive Engineer Public Works Department National Highway Division Ambikapur, District Surguja Chhattisgarh ... Respondent(s) (Cause title taken from Case Information System) For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Swapnil Keshari, Advocate For Respondent(s)/State : Mr. Santosh Bharat, Panel Lawyer Hon'ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal Order on Board 19/06/2025 1. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that petitioners are retired employees of the respondents’ Departments and were working as Work Charged Contingency paid employees. It is further submitted that in light of judgment passed by this Court in WPS No. 3870 of 2021 (Faguvaram Patel and others v. State of Chhattisgarh and others) and other connected matters, decided on 30.09.2022, present petitioners are also entitled for leave encashment. 2. Learned State counsel would submit that sufficient documents have not been filed by the petitioners, and it is also not reflected as to whether the 3 petitioners have completed the minimum service to avail the benefit of leave encashment. 3. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the documents on record. 4. Be that as it may, without commenting anything on merits of the case, the present petitions are disposed of giving liberty to the petitioners to make a detailed representation before the concerned respondents/competent authority within a period of 30 days from the date of receipt of copy of this order with all necessary documents to substantiate their claim. In that event, on due verification, if the petitioners are found to be similarly situated persons, as in the case of Faguvaram Patel (supra), their claim shall be decided by the respondents in light of judgment passed in that case expeditiously preferably within a period of 90 days from the date of submission of the said representation. 5. Accordingly, the present petitions stand disposed of with aforesaid observation and direction. Sd/- (Ravindra Kumar Agrawal) Judge ved