ANIL KUMAR AND ORS vs STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS

123 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP-15944-2026 Date of decision: 21.05.2026 Anil Kumar and others ....Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Narender K. Sharma, Advocate, Ms. Suman Sharma, Advocate and Mr. Shashank Sharma, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Piyush Khanna, Addl.A.G., Haryana. 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 for adopting the petitioners on Municipal Corporation Roll in view of the letter/instructions dated 23.04.2020 (Annexure P-1) and letter dated 17.09.2025 (Annexure P-2). Further, directing the respondents be restrained from replacing the petitioners by another set of same category of contractual employees on their respective posts in future. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that he would be satisfied if the representation (Annexure P-4) of the petitioners is decided by respondent No.4 by passing a speaking order in a time bound manner. 3. Learned State counsel, appearing on advanced notice, submi