CWP/16299/2024 on 31 December 2024

2024:HHC:16814 IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

CWP No. 16299 of 2024 Decided on: 31.12.2024 Deep Kumar

… Petitioner Versus Himachal Road Transport Corporation and another … Respondents

Coram

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 _____________________________________________________ For the petitioner : Mr. Abhishek Sharma, Advocate. For the respondents : Mr. Rahul Thakur, Advocate. Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge (Oral) By way of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:- “i) That the respondents may kindly be directed to regularize the services of the petitioner from his initial date of appointment, with all consequential benefits, alongwith interest at market rate till such time the payment is made.

ii) That or in alternative, the respondent corporation may kindly be directed to regularize the services of the petitioner immediately after one year with all consequential benefits.”

2. Today, learned Counsel for the respondents submits that the issue raised by way of this petition by the petitioner, in fact, is covered by the judgment being relied upon by the petitioner, copy whereof is appended with the petition as Annexure P-5.

3. Accordingly, this writ petition is disposed of with the 1 Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment?

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2 2024:HHC:16814 direction that all the benefits given to the petitioners by Hon’ble Division Bench of this Court in CWPOA No. 2343 of 2020, titled as Vikram Singh vs. Himachal Road Transport Corporation and others and other connected matters, decided on 09.11.2023, shall be construed to have been granted to the present petitioner also and the petitioner is held entitled for regularization from the date of completion of one year contractual service after initial appointment, with all consequential benefits from the due date. Consequential benefits be extended to the petitioner within two months from today. Arrears be paid within a period of three months from today, failing which the same shall entail interest @ 6% per annum from the date of judgment. Pending miscellaneous application(s), if any also stand disposed of accordingly.

(Ajay Mohan Goel)

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