IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 1667 (SS) of 2003 District Udham Singh Nagar Seasonal Collection Amin Evam Seasonal Collection Peon Sangh Through Khursid Ahamad, S/o Sri Rashid Ahmad, Vice President, District – Udham Singh Nagar Seasonal Collection Amin Evam Seasonal Collection Peon Sangh. ………….Petitioner. Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal through Secretary, Revenue, Government of Uttaranchal, Dehradun, Uttaranchal. 2. District Magistrate / Collector, District – Udham Singh Nagar at Rudrapur, Uttaranchal. …………Respondents Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri Vipul Sharma, holding brief of Sri I.D. Paliwal learned counsel for petitioner and Sri Subhash Upadhyay, learned Brief Holder for respondents. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs: 1. to issue the writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioner as Seasonal Collection Amins and Seasonal Collection Peons on the vacant posts and service benefits such as house allowance, annual increment, group insurance facility, provident fund as have been provided to Collection Amins in District – Pithoragarh be provided to them. 2. to issue a writ, order or direction, which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper under the facts and circumstances of the case. 3. to award the costs of the petition in favour of the petitioner. During the course of the argument, learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that he does not want to press the relief for regularization of the petitioner as Seasonal Collection Amins or Peon and the same may be treated as deleted. Prayer is allowed. Learned counsel for the petitioner has prayed that writ petition may be disposed of with a direction to the respondents to grant service benefits such as house allowance, annual increment, group insurance facility, provident fund as have been provided to Collection Amins in District – Pithoragarh. The prayer is innocuous. Accordingly, respondents are directed to provide service benefits for which petitioner is entitled in accordance with law. With this direction, the writ petition as well as Interim relief application no. nil of 2003 is finally disposed of. No order as to costs. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J) February 13, 2007 SKSHARMA