Ram Saran vs State of H. P. - 2024 Supreme(HP) 328

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2024 Supreme(HP) 328

RANJAN SHARMA
Ram Saran – Appellant
Versus
State of H. P. – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. A.K. Gupta, Advocate.
For the Respondents:Mr. Rajan Kahol, Mr. Tek Ram Sharma, Advocate,

JUDGMENT :

Ranjan Sharma, J.

Notice. Mr. Rajan Kahol, learned Additional Advocate General, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of respondents No.1 to 4. Mr. Tek Ram Sharma, learned counsel, appears and waives service of notice on behalf of respondent No.5.

2. With the consent of the parties, the instant writ petition, is taken up for disposal, at this stage, in view of the order(s) intended to be passed herein.

3. The petitioner, having retired from the post of Pump Operator on 30.04.2005, has filed the instant writ petition, with the following prayer:-

i) “That the respondents may be ordered to pay pension to the petitioner from the due date with all benefits incidental thereof.”

4. In the background of the relief(s), prayed for above, the case of the petitioner as submitted by the learned counsel is that, the petitioner was engaged as Pump Operator, Class-III on daily wage basis, in Irrigation and Public Health Division Nalagarh, District Solan, H.P. w.e.f. 1996. He further submits that he was conferred work and was then regularized, as Pump Operator in terms of the mandate of the Hon’ble Apex Court in the case of Mool Raj Upadhyaya w.e.f. 01.01.2000. The petitioner retired