2025:CGHC:45802 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 9915 of 2025 Kundan Kumar Vaidya S/o Shri Ganesh Vaidya Aged About 64 Years Occupation- Service (Retired), Office Of Sub Divisional Officer, P.W.D. Sub Division No. 1, District Rajnandgaon, C.G. R/o H. N. 152, Maanpur, Rajnandgaon, District : Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh ... Petitioner(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of General Administration, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nawa Raipur, Atal Nagar, District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh 2 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of Public Works, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nawa Raipur, Atal Nagar, District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh 3 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of Finance, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nawa Raipur, Atal Nagar, District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh 4 - The Engineer In Chief Department Of Public Works, Raipur, District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh 5 - The Chief Engineer Department Of Public Works, Durg, District : Durg, Chhattisgarh 6 - Superintending Engineer Department Of Public Works, Rajnandgaon Division, District : Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh 7 - The Sub Divisional Officer Department Of Public Works (B/r) Sub Division Ambagarh Chowki, District : Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh ...Respondents (Cause title is taken from the CIS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Petitioner : Shri SB Mukherjee, Advocate For Respondents/State : Shri S Choubey, PL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hon'ble Shri Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas Order on Board 09.09.2025 Digitally signed by V PADMAVATHI Date: 2025.09.10 11:58:54 +0530 Wps 9915 of 2025 2 1. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that petitioner is retired employee of the Public Works Department, and was working as Work Charged Contingency paid employee. The issue raised in this petition is covered with the judgment passed by this Court in WPS-3870 of 2021 (Faguvaram Patel, and others Vs State of Chhattisgarh and others), and other connected matters, decided on 30.09.2022, and the present petitioner is also entitled for leave encashment. 2. Learned State counsel would submit that sufficient documents have not been filed by the petitioner, and it is also not reflected as to whether the petitioner has 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. Taking into consideration the facts of the case, without commenting anything on merits of the case, this petition is disposed of giving liberty to the petitioner to make a detailed representation before the concerned respondent/ competent authority within a period of 30 days from the date of receipt of copy of this order with all necessary documents to substantiate his/her claim. In that event, on due verification, if the petitioner is found to be similarly situated person as in the case of Faguvaram Patel (supra), his/her 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, petition stands disposed of with aforesaid observation and direction. Sd/- (Narendra Kumar Vyas) JUDGE padma