VISHAKHA AND ORS vs STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS

121 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP-20831-2026 Date of decision: 13.07.2026 Vishakha and others ....Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Akash Vashisth, Advocate and Mr. Harsh Jain, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Rahul Dev Singh, Addl.A.G., Haryana. Mr. Jagbir Singh, Advocate and Ms. Jaskirat Kaur, Advocate for respondents No.3 to 6. HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. (ORAL) 1. The present civil writ petition has been filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to re-engage/re-join the petitioners forthwith, to allot them academic workload and to issue the time table for the ensuing academic session 2026-27 and further not to replace the petitioners by another set of contractual employees, to pay the petitioners remuneration in accordance with the UGC regulations dated 18.07.2018 (Annexure P-2), UGC communication/notification dated 28.01.2019 (Annexure P-3) and Government Instructions dated 03.11.2017 (Annexure P-1), to grant the petitioners at least the minimum of regular pay scale on the pri