WRIT - A No. 12748 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 12748 of 2025 Sujit Kumar Yadav .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Amresh Tripathi, Vinod Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Court No. - 4 HON'BLE AJIT KUMAR, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the records. 2. The submission advanced by learned counsel for the petitioner is that petitioner’s father, who was a part-time tube-well operator initially engaged in the year 1990 was subsequently engaged in a prescribed pay- scale vide order dated 1st June, 1999 though he was described as part- time tube-well operator. It is contended that since petitioner’s father was continuously working as a tube-well operator, may be assigned a status of part-time tube-well operator but in a regular pay-scale, he would be taken to have died while serving with the respondent establishment on substantive vacancy. 3. It is contended that this controversy regarding part-time tube-well operator for the purposes of benefit to be given to the dependents of such employees dying in harness under the U.P. Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servants Dying in H