CWP(T) No. 7750 of 2008 11.11.2010 Present: Mr. B. N. Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Ram Murti Bisht, Deputy Advocate General for the respondents/State. According to Mr. B. N. Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner the matter in issue is squarely covered by a decision rendered by a Division Bench of this Court in Baldev Singh and others versus State of Himachal Pradesh and others, Latest HLJ 2009 (HP) 293. 2. Petitioner has confined his prayer to Relief No. (iii) which reads as under:- “(iii) That the respondents may be restrained from giving notional and fictional breaks to the applicant for the period(s) of Summer/Winter vacation/Dushera Holidays and applicant may be held entitled to the salary for such vacation/holidays and may also be held entitled to arrears for the period(s) for which the applicant has been deprived of salary for such vacation/holidays. 3. In Baldev Singh (supra) it has been held that State cannot give any notional and fictional breaks and the teachers shall be entitled to payment of salary for the period of summer/winter vacation. 4. Consequently the directions issued in Baldev Singh (supra) shall mutatis mutandis apply to the instant case also. -2- Consequential action shall be taken within a period of three months from the date of receipt of certified copy of the order, failing which, thereafter petitioner shall be entitled to interest @ 9% per annum. Petition stands disposed of accordingly. (Sanjay Karol), Judge. November 11, 2010 (PK)