dated October, 2016 constraining him to once again file O.A. No.5998/2016, which was disposed of by the learned erstwhile Tribunal on the request of the present petitioner vide order dated 25.09.2018. This time again the petitioner pleaded that he was similarly situate as the petitioner in CWP No.11731 of 2011, titled as Pushpender Kumar Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and others, therefore, subject to verification and on finding the petitioner to be similarly situated as Pushpender Kumar, the erstwhile Tribunal directed that similar treatment be extended to the petitioner also.

4 The Competent Authority again rejected the claim of the petitioner, vide order dated 23.7.2019 and feeling aggrieved, the petitioner filed CWP No. 2771/2019 for grant of following reliefs:-

“i. that the office orders dated 23rd July 2019 Annexure P- 12 may kindly be quashed and set aside and the respondents may very kindly be directed to re-engage the applicant in Govt. Senior Secondary School Dharwar Thach as TGT Non-medical with immediate effect.

ii. that the respondents may be directed to release the “grant in aid” admissible to the petitioner from initial date of engagement till date.”

5 As observed