IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No. 7684 of 2023 with CWP Nos. 4128 of 2019, 2094 of 2020, CWP Nos. 9272, 9296, 9408, 9556,9558,9614, 10493, 10859 of 2023, CWP Nos. 26, 175, 450, 1567, 3747, 3964, 6297, 9205, 9443,9835,9841,9843, 12283, 12483, 12999,13011,13083, 13239, 13241, 13501, 13502, 13549, 13554, 13573,13593, 13595, 13597, 14313, 14913,15139, 15377, 15557, 16241 of 2024 & CWP Nos.101, 185,393,395,595 and 4667 of 2025 Date of Decision: 23.04.2025 _______________________________________________________ 1. CWP No. 7684 of 2023 Vidya Prakash …….Petitioner Versus The Municipal Corporation, Shimla. … Respondent ______________________________________________________ 2. CWP No. 4128 of 2019 Kesar Devi …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and others … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 3. CWP No. 2094 of 2020 Narinder Paul …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and others. … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 4. CWP No. 9272 of 2023 Manoj Kumar …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 2 ______________________________________________________ 5. CWP No. 9296 of 2023 Pankaj & others …….Petitioners Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 6. CWP No. 9408 of 2023 Pusp Raj and others …….Petitioners Versus The Secretary Higher Education & Anr … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 7. CWP No. 9556 of 2023 Hem Lata and others …….Petitioners Versus The Secretary Higher Education & Anr … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 8. CWP No. 9558 of 2023 Birender Singh Guleria & others …….Petitioners Versus The Secretary Higher Education & others … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 9. CWP No. 9614 of 2023 Partap Singh & others …….Petitioners Versus The Secretary Higher Education & Anr … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 10. CWP No. 10493 of 2023 Vijay Kumar & others …….Petitioners Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 11. CWP No. 10859 of 2023 Budh Ram …….Petitioner Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 3 ______________________________________________________ 12. CWP No. 26 of 2024 Chhatar Singh …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 13. CWP No. 175 of 2024 Sandeep Sharma …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 14. CWP No. 450 of 2024 Ravi Kumar and others …….Petitioners Versus The Secretary Higher Education & Anr … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 15. CWP No. 1567 of 2024 Suraj Kumar …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents ______________________________________________________ 16. CWP No. 3747 of 2024 Narender Singh …….Petitioner Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 17. CWP No. 3964 of 2024 Manglu Ram …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 18. CWP No. 6297 of 2024 Vikas Sidhu …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 4 19. CWP No. 9205 of 2024 Ajay Thakur …….Petitioner Versus HPSEBL and others … Respondents 20. CWP No. 9443 of 2024 Kala Devi …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 21. CWP No. 9835 of 2024 Sohan Singh …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 22. CWP No. 9841 of 2024 Sanjeev Kumar …….Petitioner Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 23. CWP No. 9843 of 2024 Virender Dogra …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 24. CWP No. 12283 of 2024 Mala Thapa …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 25. CWP No. 12483 of 2024 Dushyant Kumar …….Petitioner Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 5 26. CWP No. 12999 of 2024 Mahavir Singh …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 27. CWP No. 13011 of 2024 Lottam Ram and others …….Petitioners Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 28. CWP No. 13083 of 2024 Vijay Kumar …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 29. CWP No. 13239 of 2024 Balbir Singh and another …….Petitioners Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 30. CWP No. 13241 of 2024 Divyangna Chauhan …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 31. CWP No. 13501 of 2024 Kartar Singh …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 32. CWP No. 13502 of 2024 Balam Singh and another …….Petitioners Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 6 33. CWP No. 13549 of 2024 Jyoti Prakash …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 34. CWP No. 13554 of 2024 Neelma Kumari …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 35. CWP No. 13573 of 2024 Narender Kumar …….Petitioner Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 36. CWP No. 13593 of 2024 Salil Sood and another …….Petitioners Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 37. CWP No. 13595 of 2024 Anamika Kanoongo …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 38. CWP No. 13597 of 2024 Ankush …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 39. CWP No. 14313 of 2024 Shabeena Anjum …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 7 40. CWP No. 14913 of 2024 Nikhil Patiyal …….Petitioner Versus Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited & another … Respondents 41. CWP No. 15139 of 2024 Arun Kumar …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 42. CWP No. 15377 of 2024 Ramesh Kumar …….Petitioner Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 43. CWP No. 15557 of 2024 Ramana Devi …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 44. CWP No. 16241 of 2024 Sunil Kumar …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 45. CWP No. 101 of 2025 Prem Parkash …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 46. CWP No. 185 of 2025 Sunita Chauhan …….Petitioner Versus 8 State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 47. CWP No. 393 of 2025 Praveen Kumar …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 48. CWP No. 395 of 2025 Nisha Thakur …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents 49. CWP No. 595 of 2025 Ajay Kumar …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & another … Respondents 50. CWP No. 4667 of 2025 Atul Dogra …….Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Respondents Coram: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Sharma, Judge. Whether approved for reporting? 1 For the Petitioners: Mr. Ankush Dass Sood, Senior Advocate with Mr. Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Ms. Babita Chauhan, Mr. Jagan Nath, Mr. Vivek Negi, Mr. Dixit Sahotra, Mr. Tarun Sharma, Mr. Raj Kumar, Mr. Sunny Datwalia, Mr. Rajeev Sood, Mr. Pawanish Kumar Shukla, Mr. Abhay Kaushal, Mr. Pawan Kumar Sharma, Mr. Sunil Awasthi, Mr. Rajeev Sharma, Mr. Devender K. Sharma, Mr. Aashish Kumar, Mr. Karan Singh Parmar, Mr.Narender Guleria , Mr. Sat Prakash, Mr. M.A.Safee, Mr. Pranav Kumar Kaushal, Ms. Tamanna 1Whether the reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 9 Rana, Mr. Vaibhav Tanwar, Mr. Dheeraj Kanwar, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Mr. Narender Singh Thakur, Mr. Yogesh Kumar Chandel, Advocates for the petitioners in the respective petitions. For the Respondents: Mr. Mukul Sharma, Advocate, for the respondent-Municipal Corporation, Shimla. Mr. Ashwani Chawla, Mr. Prashant Sharma and Mr. Virender Singh Kanwar and Mr. Anil Kumar, Advocates, for the respondents in the respective petitions. Mr. Anup Rattan, Advocate General with Mr. Rajan Kahol, Mr. Vishal Panwar and Mr. B.C.Verma, Additional Advocate Generals and Mr. Ravi Chauhan, Deputy Advocate General for the respondents/ State. _______________________________________________________ Sandeep Sharma, Judge(oral): Since common questions of law and facts are involved in the above captioned petitions and similar reliefs have been claimed, all these matters were heard together and are being disposed of vide this common judgment. 2. By way of instant petitions, petitioners have prayed for the reliefs, which are similar, as such, relief prayed for in CWP No. 7684 of 2023 is reproduced herein below:- “a) This Hon’ble Court may kindly be pleased to direct the respondent by way of issuance of writ of mandamus to consider the petitioner as having been appointed against the post of Saffai Karamchari Class-IV pursuant to office order dated 28.08.2018 on regular basis for all intents and purpose and further this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue a writ of certiorari quashing the word ‘contract’ from the 10 appointment letter, dated 28.08.2018 Annexure P-2 and granting him regularization from the date of his initial appointment i.e. 28.08.2018; b) This Hon’ble Court may further be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondent State to pay to the petitioner all the emoluments as he is entitled a regular employee in the establishment of respondent corporation w.e.f. petitioner’s date of appointment i.e. 28.08.2018 with all consequential benefits including counting the period for the purpose of seniority etc.” 3. Before reply, if any, from the respondents could be received, learned counsel representing the petitioners, while inviting attention of this Court to judgments passed by Coordinate Bench of this Court in CWP No. 4299 of 2019 titled as Pushpa Devi Vs. Himachal Pradesh University., in CWP No. 5090 of 2022 titled as Umesh Jaswal Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors., and in CWPOA No. 1077 of 2019 titled as Nitin Kumar Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors., state that issue raised in the instant proceedings already stands adjudicated by Coordinate Bench of this Court in Pushpa Devi, Umesh Jaswal and Nitin Kumar (supra) and as such, petitioners would be content and satisfied in case they are permitted to make representations to the competent authority for redressal of their grievance, with the direction to the respondents to decide the same in a time bound manner. 4. While putting in appearance on behalf of respondents, Mr. Rajan Kahol, learned Additional Advocate General, fairly states 11 that representations, if any, filed by the petitioners shall be considered and decided expeditiously. 5. Having carefully perused the averments contained in the petitions, which are duly supported by the affidavits vis-à-vis judgments sought to be relied upon, there appears to be merit in the contention of learned counsel representing the parties that issue otherwise sought to be decided in the instant proceedings already stands adjudicated in afore cases, which otherwise stands implemented, as is evident from order dated 08.01.2025 passed by Director Elementary Education, Himachal Pradesh. If it is so, there is otherwise no impediment in accepting the prayer made on behalf of the petitioners to issue direction to the respondents to consider and decide their representations in time bound manner. 6. Consequently, in view of the aforesaid fair stand adopted by learned Additional Advocate General, this Court deems it fit to dispose of the present petitions, reserving liberty to the petitioners to file representations to the competent authority within a period of ten days, praying therein for consideration of their cases in light of judgments passed by Coordinate Bench of this Court in Pushpa Devi, Umesh Jaswal and Nitin Kumar (supra) which in turn, shall be decided by the competent authority within a period of four weeks. Ordered accordingly. Ordered accordingly. Needless to say, authority concerned, while 12 doing the needful in terms of instant order, shall afford an opportunity of being heard to the petitioners and pass speaking order. Pending applications, if any, stand disposed of. (Sandeep Sharma), Judge April 23, 2025 (shankar)