2026:HHC:19642 IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA CWP No. 6576 of 2024 Decided on : 25.05.2026 Kashmir Singh …Petitioner Versus The State of Himachal Pradesh and others …Respondents Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge Whether approved for reporting?1 For the petitioner : M/s Y.K. Thakur and Bhanu Verma, Advocates. For the respondents : Mr. R.P. Singh, Deputy Advocate General, for 1, 2, 4 & 5. Mr. Nikhil Chandel, Advocate, vice Mr. Shiv Pal Manhans, Senior Panel Counsel, for respondent No.3 Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge (Oral) By way of this writ petition, the petitioner has, inter alia, prayed for the following reliefs:- “a. The petitioner may please be regularized from the dates of his initial appointment i.e. 27/11/2006 and the period rendered in service on contract followed by regular may please be counted towards the length of his 1Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2 2026:HHC:19642 services for all consequential benefits. b. All the consequential benefits viz., grant of the regular pay scale, and pay for the contractual period, with effect from 2006 till the date of regularization. c. Correction of revision of pay band in 2008 and 2016 and considering the contractual period of service of the petitioner for determining the pension in terms of the Judgment rendered by the Hon'ble High Court of HP in Sheela Devi VS State of HP & Ors which stands upheld by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in SLP (Civil) No. 10399/ of 2020 decided on 7/08/2023 titled as State of HP & Ors. V/S Sheela Devi & Ors may please be awarded/granted/approved in favour of the petitioner.” 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner herein is similarly situated as the petitioner in CWP No. 6570 of 2026, titled Pawan Kumar Vs. The State of Himachal Pradesh and others, decided on 24.02.2026. He submits that interest of justice would be served in case, this petition be disposed of by ordering that the directions passed by this Court in Pawan Kumar Vs. The State of Himachal Pradesh and others (supra), shall be construed to have been passed in the present petition also. 3 2026:HHC:19642 3. Accordingly, this petition disposed of with the observation that the directions passed by this Court in Pawan Kumar Vs. The State of Himachal Pradesh and others (supra), shall be construed to have been mutatus mutandi passed in the present petition also. Pending miscellaneous application(s), if any, also stand disposed of accordingly. (Ajay Mohan Goel) Judge May 25, 2026 (Shivank Thakur)