IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 639 OF 2010 (S/S) Dinesh Chandra Chaudhary and another. ……Petitioners. Versus U.P. Cooperative Federation and others. …Respondents. Present: Mr. J.C. Belwal, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Ashish Joshi, Advocate for respondent nos. 1 and 2. Mr. Subhash Upadhyay, Advocate for respondent no. 4 Mr. Dinesh Gahtori, Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand/respondent no. 5. Hon’ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J. (Oral) 1. Heard Mr. J.C. Belwal, Advocate for the petitioners, Mr. Mr. Ashish Joshi, Advocate for respondent nos. 1 and 2, Mr. Subhash Upadhyay, Advocate for respondent no. 4 and Mr. Dinesh Gahtori, Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand/respondent no. 5. 2. The petitioners are employees of erstwhile U.P. Cooperative Federation. After the creation of the Uttarakhand, a parallel body has been formed in Uttarakhand, which is known as “State Cooperative Marketing Federation”. The only question involved in the writ petition is as to whether “U.P. Cooperative Federation” or “State Cooperative Marketing Federation” is liable to give post retirement benefits to the petitioners. This matter stands settled by the order dated 20.11.2006 passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court in Writ Petition No. 1176 of 2005 (S/S), which was upheld in Special Appeal being Special Appeal No. 176 of 2006 and the Special Appeal was dismissed. The Special Leave Petition, as is being informed, was dismissed, where the U.P. Cooperative Federation got no relief. 2 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsels for the respondents have accepted the legal position regarding the earlier decisions of this Court in similar matters. 4. Therefore, this writ petition is also disposed of in terms of the order dated 20.11.2006 as well as the order dated 2.7.2010 passed by a Division Bench of this Court in Writ Petition No. 121 of 2010 (S/B) Vipra Singh Vs. U.P. Cooperative Federation, Lucknow and others. 5. No order as to costs. (Sudhanshu Dhulia, J.) 6.1.2011 Rathour