1 / 4 2026:CGHC:20038 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 3698 of 2026 1 - Goukaran Das S/o Dherhudas, Aged About 62 Years R/o Village Temri, Post Surpa, Tahsil Patan, District- Durg (C.G.) 2 - Dhaneshwar Patel S/o Ramhu Lal Patel Aged About 62 Years R/o Village Banbarad, Post Office Nandini Nagar, Ward No. 15, Bazarpara, Tahsil Dhamdha. District- Durg (C.G.) 3 - Khubchand Verma S/o Paras Ram Verma Aged About 62 Years R/o Village Somani. Post Pahdor, Tahsil Patan .District- Durg (C.G.) 4 - Gaindlal Sahu S/o Bahru Ram Sahu Aged About 62 Years R/o House No. 112, Thakur Dev Para, Durg Patan District- Durg (C.G.) 5 - Goverdhan Parasad Soni S/o Vishnu Prasad Soni Aged About 62 Years R/o Near Suprabhat School, Ward No. 06, Shantinagar Bhilai- 3 District- Durg (C.G.) 6 - Krishna Ram Patel S/o Jamlu Patel Aged About 62 Years R/o Village Dhanora, Post Hanoda, Tahsil Patan District- Durg (C.G.) 7 - Vinay Sanjeet Waghmare S/o Satish Waghmare Aged About 62 Years R/o Sikola, Bhatha Prem Nagar, Durg District- Durg (C.G.) 8 - Ramadhin Sahu S/o Ganesh Ram Sahu Aged About 62 Years R/o Near New Ganjmandi, Ward No. 16, Jayanti Nagar, Durg Tahsil And District- Durg (C.G.) ALFIZA BAIG Digitally signed by ALFIZA BAIG Date: 2026.05.01 11:07:30 +0530 2 / 4 9 - Smt. Suniti Bai Chandrakar W/o Late Shri Krishna Kumar Chandrakar Aged About 61 Years R/o Laxmanpur, Rajnandgaon, Chhuikhadan (C.G.) 10 - Smt. Shanta Bai W/o Kewal Ram Aged About 54 Years R/o Mundipar P.S. Salekasa, District- Bhandara Maharashtra ... Petitioners versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Secretary, Department Of Water Resources, Mahanadi Bhawan, Mantralaya, Atal Nagar, New Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) 2 - Engineer In Chief Department Water Resources, Raipur District- Raipur (C.G.) 3 - Divisional Joint Director, Treasury Account And Pension Raipur District- Raipur (C.G.) 4 - Divisional Joint Director, Treasury Account And Pension Division Durg District- Durg (C.G.) 5 - Engineer In Chief / Executive Engineer, Tandula, Water Resource Department Division Durg District- Durg (C.G.) 6 - Treasury Officer, Treasury Account And Pension Durg Division Durg District- Durg (C.G.) ... Respondents For Petitioners : Mr. K.P. Sahu Advocate For State : Mr. Lav Sharma, panel lawyer S.B.: Hon'ble Shri Parth Prateem Sahu, Judge Order on Board 30.04.2026 3 / 4 1. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioner no. 1 to 8 being the retired employees and petitioner no. 9 and 10 being wife of retired employee stood retired as Work Charged and Contingency Paid Employees are entitled for leave encashment but till date respondents have not extended the benefit of leave encashment to petitioners. Identical issue came up for hearing before this Court in case of Faguvaram Patel & Ors. Vs. State of C.G., in W.P.(S) No. 3870 of 2021 decided on 30.09.2022, wherein petitioners have raised identical issue which was allowed in their favour. He submits that at this stage, petitioners may be permitted to submit representation in light of Faguvaram Patel (supra) and respondents be directed to decide the representation to be submitted by petitioners expeditiously within specified time. 2. Learned State counsel submits that as petitioners are not pressing this petition on merits and are only seeking a direction to decide the representation to be submitted by petitioners, at this stage, he is having no objection. 3. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the documents available on record. 4. Taking into consideration the limited prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioners, this petition is disposed of permitting the petitioners to make fresh representation. In the event, petitioners submit representation, their claim shall be considered and decided in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of representation keeping in mind decision in case of Faguvaram Patel (supra). 4 / 4 5. Accordingly, this petition is disposed of with aforesaid observation and direction. Certified copy as per rules. sd/- (Parth Prateem Sahu) Judge Alfiza