LAWS(HPH)-2024-4-32

ROOP LAL Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

Decided On April 19, 2024
ROOP LAL Appellant
V/S
STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Since, common questions of law and facts arise for consideration in all these petitions, therefore, they were taken up together for hearing and are being disposed of by a common judgment.

(2.) Broadly, the prayers made in all these petitions are:

(3.) The petitioner(s) is/are/were the employees of an institute of the School/Home for speech and hearing impaired children, Dhalli, Shimla, H.P. duly run by the H.P. State Council for Child Welfare and Education ( for short "Council"). Their claim is that even though they were appointed on contractual basis and were thereafter discharging their duties and responsibilities at par with that of their counter-parts employed in the Government schools for the visually and impaired hearing children, yet they were being discriminated against qua their counter-parts at every step, be it grant of pay, regularization and pension etc. etc.