IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA CWP No.4647 of 2024 th Decided on 28 April 2026 Dinesh Kumar …Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and another …Respondents Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge

1 Whether approved for reporting?

For the petitioner: Mr. P.S. Goverdhan, Senior Advocate, with Mr. Rakesh Thakur, Advocate.

For the respondents: Mr. Pushpinder Jaswal, Additional Advocate General.

Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge (Oral By way of this writ petition, the petitioner has, inter alia, prayed for the following reliefs:-

“I To issue necessary writ, order or direction to i the respondents to grant seniority to the petitioner H from the date of appointment i.e. 8.9.2011, and to count the entire service rendered by petitioner on contract basis, from the date of initial appointment followed by his regularization, for the purpose of increment and all other service benefits, with all consequential benefits in accordance with law, in view of the submissions made hereinabove.

(b) To quash and set aside the impugned tentative seniority list of clerks dated 18.12.2017 Annexure P- 4 and to redraw the same, with further direction to prepare the seniority list in the cadre o