Smt. Durga Yadav v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Leave encashment; work-charged/contingency paid employees; Chhattisgarh Work-Charged/Contingency Paid Employees Leave Rules, 1977; direction (not merits adjudication) to Water Resource Department and Treasury authorities to decide claims individually on merits in light of Faguvaram Patel (W.P.(S) No. 3870/2021, 30.09.2022, affirmed in W.A. No. 119/2023, 20.06.2023); 120-day time limit; writ petition disposed of.
What did the court decide?
Direction to the respondent authorities to process the petitioners' claims for leave encashment, examine each case individually on its own merits, and decide them in the light of the decision in W.P.(S) No. 3870/2021, within an outer limit of 120 days from receipt of a copy of the order. ¶23