SMT. RADHA BAI Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The present writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying that the petitioner who has been engaged as contractual employee on the post of Cook be granted 180 days maternity leave.

(2.) Whether a contractual employee engaged under a Scheme of the Govt, is entitled to grant of 180 days leave toward maternity leave, is an issue which has already been decided in affirmative by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court on 14.2017 in Meenakshi Rao v. The State of Rajasthan & Ors., SBCWP No.1598/2017. The order passed by the co-ordinate Bench on 14.2017 in the case of Meenakshi Rao <i>(supra)</i> reads as under:-

(3.) Mr. Sanjay Sharma, Government Counsel appearing for the respondents could not distinguish the order passed in the case of Meenakshi Rao <i>(supra)</i>.