IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No.19196 of 2025 Decided on: 8th December, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bhime Ram and another …..Petitioners Versus State of H.P. and others .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coram Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioners: Mr. R.L. Verma, Advocate vice Mr. Naresh Verma, Advocate. For the Respondents: Mr. Anup Rattan, Advocate General with Mr. Y.P.S. Dhaulta, Additional Advocate General. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge Notice. Mr. Y.P.S. Dhaulta, learned Additional Advocate General, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of the respondents. 2. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, the matter is heard at this stage. 3. Petitioners are the retired employees of the respondent-Forest Department and have prayed for direction to the respondents to grant them work charge 1 Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes. 2 status from the date they completed eight years of service with all incidental benefits. 4. Learned vice counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that the issue involved in the writ petition and the relief 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. Learned vice counsel further submits that the petitioners would be satisfied in case the respondents are directed to examine their respective cases in light of the aforesaid judgment within a fixed time schedule. Learned Additional Advocate General is not averse to this prayer. 5. Having regard to the afore-submissions, but without examining the merits of the matter, this writ petition is disposed of with direction to the respondents/ competent authority to consider and decide 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 petition stands disposed of in the above terms, so also the pending miscellaneous application(s), if any. Jyotsna Rewal Dua December 08, 2025 Judge Mukesh