IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

213 CWP-38197-2018 (O&M)

Date of decision: 11.02.2025 Shiv Kumar and another ...Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...Respondents

219 CWP-7179-2021 (O&M)

Date of decision: 11.02.2025 Shiv Kumar and another ...Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Chanderhas Yadav, Advocate and Mr. Harjit Yadav, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Tapan Kumar, DAG Haryana.

Mr. Vivek Saini, Advocate for respondent No.2-MICADA in CWP-7179-2021.

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

1. Whether State should be permitted to replace a set of contractual employees by another by way of a clandestine transfer of the scheme to another nodal instrumentality of the State, with a re-naming of the department, and thereby stopping the budgetary allocation to the department in which the petitioners were contractually engaged, and then to plead that since the State funding to the scheme is discontinued, the petitioners need to be relieved, is the core issue that arises for adjudication in these writ petitions. The same are thus taken up together.

2. Certain undisputed facts necessary