1 2025:CGHC:28443 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 6444 of 2025 1 - Lakhan Ram Yadav S/o Ram Dayal Yadav Aged About 67 Years R/o Village Polkara, Post Office Pendra, Police Station Fingeshwar District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 2 - Jkakher (Jhakher) Manjhi S/o Kartik Ram Manjhi Aged About 67 Years R/o Ward No.2 Deobhog, Post Office And Police Station Deobhog, District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 3 - Pancho Bai W/o Rohit Lal Aged About 68 Years R/o Village Majarkatta, Tahsil And District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 4 - Ramanand Sahu S/o Baisakhu Sahu Aged About 69 Years R/o Village And Post Office Kirwai, Police Station Rajim District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 5 - Ramhu Sahu S/o Rangi Sahu Aged About 69 Years R/o Ward No. 14 Beltukari, Tahsil And District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 6 - Johanu Ram Sahu S/o Dheluram Sahu Aged About 69 Years R/o Village And Post Office Kirawai, Police Station Rajim District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 7 - Girdhari Ram Sahu S/o Ghurau Ram Sahu Aged About 70 Years R/o Village Nawadih, Ward No. 19 Panduka, Post Office And Police Station Panduka District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 8 - Ghanaram Sahu S/o Latel Sahu Aged About 63 Years R/o Village Bhasera, Police Station Fingeshwar, District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 9 - Neharu Ram Sahu S/o Budh Ram Sahu Aged About 63 Years R/o Chandan ALOK SHARMA Digitally signed by ALOK SHARMA Date: 2025.06.28 10:54:36 +0530 2 Chauk Roba Fingeshwar, Police Station Fingeshwar, District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh ... Petitioner(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Water Resource Department, New Mantralay, Mahanadi Bhawan, New Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh 2 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, General Administration Department, New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, New Raipur District Raipur Chhattisgarh 3 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Finance Department, New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, New Raipur District Raipur Chhattisgarh 4 - The Engineer In Chief, Water Resource Department, Nirman Bhawan, North Block, Sector-19, Capital Complex Naya Raipur, Atal Nagar, Raipur, District Raipur Chhttisgarh 5 - The Executive Engineer, Water Resource Department, Gariyaband District Gariyaband Chhattisgarh 6 - The Joint Director, Treasury Account And Pension, Tahsil And District Raipur Chhattisgarh ... Respondent(s) For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Kripesh G. Kela, Advocate. For Respondent(s) : Mr. Ajit Singh, Govt. Advocate. Hon'ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, J. Order on Board 27/06/2025 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 3 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 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, this petition is 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 petition stands disposed of with aforesaid observation and direction. Sd/- (Ravindra Kumar Agrawal) Judge alok