CWP/18760/2026 on 27 October 2026

1. CWP No.18892 of 2026 Harender Kumar

…..Petitioner

Versus State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2. CWP No.18871 of 2026 Ravinder and Ors

…..Petitioners

Versus

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3. CWP No.18894 of 2026 Lalita Kumari and Ors

…..Petitioners

Versus

State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4. CWP No.18865 of 2026 Paras Ram

…..Petitioner

Versus State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

5. CWP No.18899 of 2026 Dinesh Kumar

…..Petitioner

Versus State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

6. CWP No.18853 of 2026 Kiran Bala and Ors

…..Petitioners

Versus State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents

7. CWP No.18780 of 2026 Talwinder Singh

…..Petitioner

Versus

State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8. CWP No.18760 of 2026 Punita Kumari and Ors

…..Petitioners

Versus

State of H.P. and anr

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

9. CWP No.18757 of 2026 Ranjana Devi

…..Petitioner

Versus

State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

10. CWP No.18858 of 2026 Girdhari Lal and Ors

…..Petitioners

Versus

State of H.P. and Ors

.....Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

11. CWP No.18751 of 2026 Kuljinder Singh and Anr

…..Petitioners

Versus

.....Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 CWP No.18750 of 2026 Yamini Negi

…..Petitioner

Versus

State of H.P. and Anr

.....Respondents

Coram

Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioners: M/s C.S.Thakur, Harish Kumar,

Prashant Manhans, Bhupinder Thakur,

Rajinder Thakur, Piyush Dhanotia,

Vaibhav Tanwar, Vivek Thakur, Pawan

K Sharma and R.L.Chaudhary,

Advocates in the respective writ

petitions.

For the Respondents: Ms. Seema Sharma, Deputy Advocate General. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge

Notice. Ms. Seema Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of the respondents in all the writ petitions.

2. Petitioners’ grievance is that their representations, annexed with the respective writ petitions, seeking applicability of Inder Singh Thakur & Ors Vs. State of H.P. & Ors2 have not been decided till date by the respondents/competent authority. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners would be content in case the respondents/competent authority(s) are directed to consider and decide the aforesaid representations in accordance with law within a fixed-time

1Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes. 2 CWP No. 4830 of 2023, decided alongwith connected matter on 07.04.2025.

schedule. Learned Deputy Advocate General is not averse to this prayer.

3. 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 aforesaid representations of the petitioners in accordance with law as well as taking into consideration the above decision, 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 October 27, 2026

Judge R.Atal