ROHIT v. State of Chhattisgarh

6 - Smt. Rita Yadav W/o Shri Krishna Yadav Aged About 42 Years R/o Old Basti Behind Vimal Talkies Manendragarh P.S. Manendragarh District- Koriya (Baikunthpur) Chhattisgarh, 7 - Mubarak Ali S/o Shri Mohd Ali Aged About 39 Years R/o Village Karahiyakhand Post Girzapur P.S. Patna Tahsil Baikunthpur District- Koriya (Baikunthpur)chhattisgarh, 8 - Ranjeet Kumar Sinha S/o Shri Girish Prasad Sinha Aged About 43 Years R/o Near Primary School Sattipara Ambikapur, District- Surguja (Ambikapur) Chhattisgarh, 9 - Bisun Dev Rajwade S/o Shri Radheshyam Aged About 32 Years R/o Ghughra Katgodi Sonhat Baikunthpur, District- Koriya (Baikunthpur)chhattisgarh, 10 - Rajesh Sahu S/o Shri Ram Kripal Sahu Aged About 39 Years R/o Village Sonhat, Post- Sonhat Baikunthpur, P.S. Sonhat District- Koriya (Baikunthpur)chhattisgarh, 11 - Shyam Kumar S/o Shri Bhagwat Prasad Aged About 39 Years R/o Domanheel Chirmiri Post- Sonawani P.S.Chirmiri District- Koriya Chhattisgarh, 4 12 - Rajesh Sonkar S/o Shri Gopi Sonkar Aged About 36 Years R/o Sonkar Mohalla, Bada Chirmiri District- Koriya (Baikunthpur) Chhattisgarh, 13 - Raghunandan Prasad Kurrey S/o Shri Laxaman Prasad Kurrey Aged About 41 Years R/o Haldiwadi Chirmiri P.S. Chirmiri District- Koriya (Baikunthpur) Chhattisgarh, 14 - K. Santosh Rao S/o Shri K. Narayan Swami Aged About 45 Years R/o Ward No.16, Village Chanwaridand P.S. Manendragarh District- Manendragarh Chirmiri Bharatpur Chhattisgarh, 15 - Abhishek Pandey S/o Shri Lalit Kumar Pandey Aged About 42 Years R/o Ward No.21, Near Water Tank, P.S. Manendragarh District- Manendragarh Chirmiri Bharatpur Chhattisgarh, 16 - Akshay Kumar Sahu S/o Shri Brijmohan Sahu Aged About 33 Years R/o Village Lodari Post- Barbaspur P.S. Manendragarh District- Manendragarh Chirmiri Bharatpur Chhattisgarh, (Cause-title taken from Case Information System) ... Respondents For Appellant For Respondents/State : Mr. Shashank Thakur, Addl. Advocate General : Mr. Roop Ram Naik, Advocate Hon'ble Shri Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha, Shri Arvind Kumar Verma Chief Justice , Judge Judgment on Board Per Ramesh Sinha , Chief Justice 08 .01 .2026 1 Heard Mr. Manoj Paranjpe, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Arpan Verma, learned counsel for the appellants as well as Mr. S.S. Baghel, learned Government Advocate, appearing for the State/respondent Nos. 1 to 4. 5 2 By way of present writ appeal under Section 2 of Sub-Section (1) of the Chhattisgarh High Court (Appeal to Division Bench Act, 2006, the appellants, who were not party in the writ petition, have challenged the order dated 11.12.2024 passed by learned Single Judge in WPS No.7658/2024 (Ritesh Kumar Dwivedi & Others Vs. State of Chhattisgarh & Others), by which the writ petition filed by the writ petitioners/respondent Nos. 5 to 16 herein has been allowed and authorities have been directed to consider the candidature of the respondents herein for appointment to the post of peon/chowkidar and concerned authorities were directed to complete the entire process within a period of 120 days from the production of the copy of the order. The appellants are directly affected by the said order, while considering the case of the respondents and the notices have been issued to the appellants herein for cancellation of their appointment made on 12.09.2014,

10.07.2015, 01.02.2016. 3 At the outset, learned Senior Advocate appearing for appellants submits that during pendency of the appeal, the State Government has taken a decision that instead of disturbing the appellants, who were working for last more than 10 years, the writ petitioners/ respondent Nos. 5 to 16 herein were accommodated and the said statement has been made in the contempt petition filed by the writ petitioners / respondent Nos. 5 to 16 herein as CONT No. 255 of 2025 on 06.01.2026, therefore, in view of the same, he wants withdraw the instant appeal. 6 4 Accordingly, the instant appeal is dismissed as withdrawn in view of order dated 06.01.2026 passed in CONT No. 255 of 2025 the writ petitioners/ respondent Nos. 5 to 16 herein. Sd/- Sd/- (Arvind Kumar Verma) (Ramesh Sinha) Judge Chief Justice Chandra