IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No. 4850/2023 a/w connected matters Decided on: 19.12.2025 1. CWP No. 4850/2023 Pyare Lal …Petitioner Versus State of H.P. & Ors. .…Respondents. 2. CWP No. 4148/2023 Parveen Kumar & Anr. …Petitioners Versus State of H.P. & Ors. .…Respondents. 3. CWP No. 4149/2023 Rakesh Kumar Pathania …Petitioner Versus State of H.P. & Ors. .…Respondents. 4. CWP No. 4150/2023 Kuldeep Singh …Petitioner Versus State of H.P. & Ors. .…Respondents. ………………………………………………………………………………. Coram Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 For the petitioners: Mr. R.K. Dogra, Advocate in all the petitions. 1 Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? yes 2 For the respondents: Mr. L.N. Sharma, Additional Advocate General in all the petitions. Jyotsna Rewal Dua , J CMP No. 30854/2025 in CWP No. 4148/2023 For the reasons stated in the application, the same is allowed and disposed of. CWP Nos.4148, 4149, 4150, 4850/2023 Delink CWP No. 4842/2023 Even though reply has not been filed by the respondents, however, with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, the matters are heard at this stage. 2. These writ petitions have been filed for the grant of almost common substantive reliefs. Relief clause herein is extracted from CWP No. 4850/2023:- “a) That respondents may kindly be directed to extend the benefit of increments in favour of the petitioner for the services rendered by the petitioner in Indian Army (approved military service) w.e.f. 03.11.2020 the date services of the petitioner regularized as forest guard. b) The respondents may kindly be directed to fix the pay of the petitioner on completion of two years its regularization as forest guard in the pay scale of Rs.30400 plus increments of approved military service w.e.f. 03.11.2022 along with arrears and interest from the date it became due till its realization.” 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the issue involved in these writ petitions, grievances of the petitioners and 3 the relief prayed for by them have essentially been adjudicated upon in Mohit Sharma & Anr. Vs. State of H.P. & Ors.2 Learned counsel further submitted that the petitioners would be content in case the respondents are directed to examine petitioners’ cases in light of the aforesaid judgment within a fixed time schedule. Learned Additional Advocate General are not averse to this prayer. 4. Having regard to the afore-submissions, but without examining the merits of the matters, these writ petitions are disposed of with a direction to the respondents/competent authority to consider and decide the cases of the petitioners in accordance with law as well as taking into consideration the above judgment by passing appropriate orders, within a period of six weeks from today. The decision so arrived at shall also be communicated to the petitioners. Pending miscellaneous application(s), if any, shall also stand disposed of. Jyotsna Rewal Dua Judge 19th December, 2025(rohit) 2CWP No. 1638 of 2024, decided on 29.11.2024