Shimla, Aug. 16 -- The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that the benefit of maternity leave granted to a contractual employee cannot be curtailed merely because she submitted a medical fitness certificate at the time of her regularization. Justice Sandeep Sharma, while deciding the writ petition filed by Kamini Sharma, observed that submission of a medical fitness certificate could not have given any right to the respondents to curtail the maternity leave of the petitioner granted to her w.e.f. August 21, 2021, for a period of 180 days. The petitioner was appointed as a Junior Basic Teacher (JBT) at Government Primary School, Gater, in September 2018 on contractual basis. In August 2021, she gave birth to a child and duly availed of mat...