JUDGMENT :

By way of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:-

(i) That the impugned order dated 04.03.2021 (Annexure P-5) passed by the respondent may kindly be set aside and quashed being wrong, arbitrary, illegal, inapplicable, discriminatory, void abinitio and violative of the judgment dated 08.02.2019 rendered by the Hon’ble Apex Court in Civil Appeal Nos.1557-1564 of 2019 (Arising out of SLP (c) Nos. 16158- 16165/2016) titled as Himachal Road Transport Corporation Versus Lekh Ram Etc., by issuing writ of Certiorari.

(ii) That a writ in the nature of mandamus may kindly be issued, directing the respondent to regularize the services of the petitioner from the date of his initial appointment i.e. 10.04.2007, strictly in accordance with the judgment dated 08.02.2019 (Annexure P-5) with all consequential service benefits.

(iii) That the respondent may further be directed to pay arrears of salary alongwith interest @ 9% per annum flowing out of regularization of the petitioner as conductor w.e.f. 10.04.2007, by issuing writ of mandamus.

2. The case of the petitioner is that his father died in harness on 25.10.2000, while in the service of the respondent-