CWP No. 186 of 2004 with CWPs No.427 of 2004, 711, 1424, 1432, 1434, 1435, 1553, 1554, 1555, 1593 and 1616 of 2007. 08.07.2008 Present: Mr. R.K. Bawa, Advocate General with Mr. Ankush Dass Sood, Additional Advocate General, for the petitioners in all the writ petitions. Mr. Ashwani Kumar Gupta and Mr. R.D. Kaundal, Advocates, for the respondent in CWPs No.186, 427 of 2004, 1593 and 1616 of 2007. Mr. Ashok Sharma, Advocate, for the respondent in CWP No.711 of 2007. Mr. Dharamvir Sharma, Advocate, for the respondent in CWP No. 1555 of 2007. In this bunch of petitions, directed against the judgments of the Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal the question of law is whether Nepali citizens can be given benefit of work-charge status in the light of judgment of the Supreme Court rendered in Mool Raj Upadhaya v. State of HP and others, reported in 1994(2) SLR 377. We find that there is no finding recorded by the learned Tribunal on the issue. Therefore, with the consent of learned Counsel for the parties we remand the matters back to the Tribunal and quash the orders of the learned Tribunal with a direction that the matters be reconsidered and decided as expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of two months. It would be open for the parties to bring on record any additional document and pleas, if they so desire for the effective and final adjudication of the matters. -2- The parties shall appear before the learned Tribunal on 14th July, 2008 alongwith certified copy of this order. With these observations, all the writ petitions are disposed of and so also all the pending applications. Copy DASTI. (Jagdish Bhalla), C.J. July 08, 2008. ( Sanjay Karol ), J. (rc)