SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPMS/2676/2025 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J. Ms. Anju Bhattacharya, Advocate for the petitioner. 2. Mr. Ganesh Dutt Kandpal, Deputy Advocate General for the State of Uttarakhand. 3. Petitioner is running a shop at Unchapul in Haldwani, District Nainital. According to her, the land over which the shop is standing was leased out in favour of father-in-law of the petitioner in the year 1975 and after his death, petitioner’s husband inherited the said land. 4. The grievance raised by the petitioner is that the Executive Engineer, Public Works Department has issued a notice on 29.08.2025, in the name of petitioner’s late husband asking him to remove his possession from the land in question within fifteen days, failing which, his possession would be forcibly removed. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that since petitioner’s husband passed away in the year 2022, therefore, petitioner has applied for renewal of the lease and her application is pending before the competent authority. She further submits that petitioner had made a representation to the District Magistrate, Nainital, on 08.09.2023, therefore, he may be directed to take decision thereupon. 6. Learned State Counsel submits that he has no objection, if the writ petition is disposed of in terms of the prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioner. 7. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the District Magistrate to take decision on petitioner’s representation, as per law, within two weeks from date of production of certified copy of this order. For a period of two weeks, status quo qua the house belonging to the petitioner shall be maintained. (Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.) 12.09.2025 Navin NAVEEN CHANDRA Digitally signed by NAVEEN CHANDRA DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=3be23325146e76a0642bdf4943fb9046f487df006da8 2a131bb4e4403d3c0a15, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=18167EEFB5CA8CFFD421A103819DA875643AF 56D653D095C6ED9A86DAAB21CE5, cn=NAVEEN CHANDRA Date: 2025.09.15 10:57:11 +05'30'