Shimla, Aug. 19 -- The Himachal Pradesh High Court has come to the rescue of a government school teacher whose maternity leave was curtailed midway after her regularisation, ruling that the state could not deny her the full benefit of leave already sanctioned.

Justice Sandeep Sharma, in a detailed judgment delivered on August 11, 2025, allowed the petition filed by Kamini Sharma, a Junior Basic Teacher (JBT), and quashed the government's orders dated December 13, 2021, December 23, 2021, and June 19, 2025.

The Court noted that Sharma, who had given birth on August 21, 2021, was sanctioned for 180 days of maternity leave. However, after her services were regularised on October 21, 2021, she was compelled to join duty the next day by furn...