IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No.18820 of 2025 alongwith CWP No.18824 of 2025 Decided on: 2nd December, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CWP No.18820 of 2025 Ishwar Singh …..Petitioner Versus State of H.P. and others .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. CWP No.18824 of 2025 Prince Bansal …..Petitioner Versus State of H.P. and others .....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coram Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioners: Mr. C.N. Singh, Dr. Nidhi Singh, Mr. Anshul Gandhi and Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Advocates. For the Respondents: Mr. L.N. Sharma, Additional Advocate General. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge Notice. Mr. L.N. Sharma, learned Additional Advocate General, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of the respondents. 1 Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes. 2 2. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, the matters are heard at this stage. 3. Both these writ petitions have been filed for the grant of almost identical reliefs. The substantive reliefs in CWP No.18820 of 2025 read as under:- “i) Issue a writ of Certiorari, Mandamus or other appropriate writ or direction, directing the respondents to regularize the contractual service of the petitioner as Pharmacist after completion of two years of contractual service i.e. w.e.f. 03.10.2024 with all consequential benefits and re-fix the pay of the petitioner and release the arrears in his favour along with 9% interest within time bound manner. ii) Issue a writ of Mandamus or other appropriate writ order or direction, by directing the respondents to pay the equal pay and perks to Petitioner on the post of Counselor NHM from the initial date of her appointment Or after completion of Two years of contractual service as paid to the Counselors/regular employees in the Respondent department in terms of the law laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court of India with all consequential benefits.” 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the issue raised by the petitioners and the reliefs prayed for by them have already been adjudicated upon in Anuradha Thakur Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and Ors.2, Mohan Singh and Ors. Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and Ors.3 and Nitin Thakur Versus State of H.P. and others4. Learned counsel further submits that the petitioners would be satisfied in case the 2 CWPOA No.3621 of 2019, decided on 10.09.2025 3 CWP No.814 of 2020, decided alongwith connected matters on 27.10.2025 4 CWP No.4971 of 2024, decided alongwith connected matters on 23.09.2025 3 respondents are directed to examine their respective cases in light of the aforesaid judgments 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 matters, these writ petitions are disposed of with a direction to respondents/ competent authority to consider and decide the respective cases of the petitioners in accordance with law as well as taking into consideration the above judgments by passing appropriate order, within a period of six weeks from today. The decision so arrived at shall also be communicated to the petitioners. The writ petitions stand disposed of in the above terms, so also the pending miscellaneous application(s), if any. Jyotsna Rewal Dua December 02, 2025 Judge Mukesh