IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No. 3711 and 3712 of 2010 Decided on: 3 rd September, 2010 (For title, please see below) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Coram: The Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph, Chief Justice. The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Rajiv Sharma, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1. No For the petitioner. : Mr. P.P. Chauhan, Advocate. For the respondents : Mr. Adarsh Sharma, Advocate. _______________________________________________________________________ Justice Kurian Joseph, C.J. (Oral) : 1. CWP No. 3711 of 2010 Rajinder Kumar Vs. HRTC and others. 2. CWP No. 3712 of 2010 Satish Kumar Vs. HRTC and others. Both these cases pertain to the termination of the petitioners, who have been working as Bus Sahayak in the Himachal Road Transport Corporation. According to the petitioners, they have been discontinued on verbal orders. Learned counsel for the Corporation points out that there is a provision for arbitration and the Managing Director is the Arbitrator. According to the petitioners, posts of Bus Sahayak are still lying vacant and the Corporation is in the dire need of those posts. There will be a direction to the Managing Director to take a final decision in the matter, as sole Arbitrator within a period of one month from today. In order to enable the Managing 1 Whether the reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? -2- Director to dispose of the matter, as above, in arbitration the petitioners will appear before the Managing Director on 27th September, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. We make it clear that the Managing Director will pass a speaking order in the process. 2. Both the writ petitions are disposed of, so also the pending application(s), if any. Copy dasti on usual terms. (Justice Kurian Joseph), Chief Justice. (Justice Rajiv Sharma), Judge. September 3, 2010 (Awasthi//K. Attri)