HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT JAMMU Reserved on: 02.12.2025 Pronounced on 11.12.2025 Uploaded on 11.12.2025 Whether the operative part or full judgment is pronounced: Full CJ Court:

WP(C) No. 3402/2025 UT of J&K and others …Petitioner(s)/Appellant(s)

Through: Mrs. Monika Kohli, Sr. AAG v/s …. Respondent(s)

Som Raj Through: Mr. Abirash Sharma, Advocate CORAM: HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJNESH OSWAL, JUDGE.

JUDGMENT

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‘Oswal J’

1. The respondent instituted SWP No. 1240/2002 in the year 2002, seeking directions to the petitioners (then respondents 1 to 3) to retrospectively regularize his services with effect from 01.09.1996, in terms of SRO 64 of 1994 dated March 24, 1994, and to release the unpaid wages payable to him. The said writ petition came to be disposed of in terms of order 14.11.2002, directing the respondents, petitioners 1 to 3 herein, to examine the record with regard to the engagement and continuation of the respondent as Daily Rated/Seasonal Labourer and if the respondent was found to have been engaged and continuously working as Daily Rated Worker, after the examination of the record, the petitioners 1 to 3 i.e. respondents therein, were d