2025:UHC:6909-DB SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPSB/372/2020 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J. Hon’ble Subhash Upadhyay, J. There is no representation for the petitioner. 2. Mr. D.S. Bora, Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand. 3. Petitioner has challenged Government Orders dated 28.10.2020, 05.11.2020 and 09.11.2020 issued by State Government regarding Downgrade Principal. These Government Orders provide that one should be eligible for appointment as Downgrade Principal on the date of occurrence of vacancy on the said post or else the post of Principal should be filled by direct recruitment. 4. Learned State Counsel submits that identical issue was decided by this Court in the case of Lalit Kishor Sharma v. State of Uttarakhand and others (Writ Petition (S/B) No. 371 of 2020). 5. Copy of the judgment dated 09.06.2025, rendered in the said writ petition, is produced before us. Upon perusal of the said judgment, we find substance in the submission made by learned State Counsel. 6. Accordingly, the writ petition is decided in terms of the judgment dated 09.06.2025 rendered in Writ Petition (S/B) No. 371 of 2020. (Subhash Upadhyay, J.) (Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.) 06.08.2025 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=3be23325146e76a0642bdf4943fb9046f487d f006da82a131bb4e4403d3c0a15, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=18167EEFB5CA8CFFD421A103819DA8 75643AF56D653D095C6ED9A86DAAB21CE5, cn=NAVEEN CHANDRA Date: 2025.08.07 09:55:57 +05'30'