CWP-13442-2021

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

CWP-13442-2021

Date of decision: 24.03.2022

KANTA MALIK GILL

...Petitioner

Versus

STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS

...Respondents

CORAM:

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE JAISHREE THAKUR

Present:- Mr. Shivam Malik, Advocate

for the petitioner.

Mr. Raj Karan Singh Brar, Addl. A. G., Haryana.

JAISHREE THAKUR, J.

(Oral)

The instant petition has been filed under Articles 226/227 of

the Constitution of India for directing the respondents to grant and sanction

Child Care Leave to the petitioner in terms of Rule 46 of the Haryana Civil

Services (Leave) Rules, 2016 to take care of her minor daughter, who is

aged 16 years studying in the 10+2 class and is to undergo her Board

examinations.

Learned counsel for the petitioner herein would contend that

the petitioner had applied for Child Care Leave well in time, however, for

one reason or the other, the respondents did not take any action thereon. In

fact, she had been applying for such leave for different spells but with no

favour. It is submitted that the petitioner, in anticipation that her minor

daughter would require her help for the preparation of t