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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 05.02.2026 Ashwani Kumar and others .... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others .... Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE NAMIT KUMAR Present: None for the petitioners.

Mr. Swapan Shorey, DAG, Punjab.

Mr. Vikas Mohan Gupta, Advocate, for respondent No.6.

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NAMIT KUMAR, J. (ORAL)

1. The petitioners have filed the instant writ petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, seeking a writ of mandamus for directing the respondents to regularise the services of the petitioners, who were appointed on contract basis, and grant them regular pay scale by treating them at par with regular employees.

2. In the written statement filed on behalf of respondents No.1 to 4 and 7, it has been stated that the petitioners were appointed through respondent No.5-contractor. Para 2 of the preliminary submissions of the written statement is as under:-

“2. That the present Civil Writ Petition has been filed on false and frivolous grounds as there is no privity of contract between the petitioners and the answering respondents. The petitioners are fairly and squarely the employees of out-source company through w