Reena Mehta and Others v. the State of Hp and Another
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Himachal Pradesh HC common judgment (23.07.2026; Vivek Singh Thakur & Ranjan Sharma, JJ.) on 63 CWPs by ex-PTA Grant-in-Aid teachers converted to contract (January 2015) and regularized w.e.f. 01.04.2018: quashing of HP Recruitment and Conditions of Service of Government Employees Act 2024 (Act No. 23 of 2025) applied mutatis mutandis from CWP No. 3361 of 2025 (Devinder Kumar); denial of counting of pre-conversion/PTA-period service for seniority, increments, pay-scale continuity and pensionary qualifying service; Order II Rule 2 CPC omission-to-sue bar after CWP No. 342 of 2021 (Yashwant Singh); Direct Recruit Class II Engineering Officers' Association (1990) 2 SCC 715 paras 47(A)/(B); CCS (Pension) Rules 1972 Rules 13 & 17; CCS (Pension) Rules 2021 Rule 13; Central Civil Services (Temporary Services) Rules 1965; Grant-in-Aid to Parents Teacher Associations Rules 2006; distinctions from Joga Singh, Taj Mohammad, G.P. Doval, L. Chandrakishore Singh, Rudra Kumar Sain, Baldev Singh; Lalit Sen (CWP No. 10783 of 2024) disapproved.