UKHC010138632026 2026:UHC:7029 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPSS/2092/2026 Yashodhar Gahtori --Petitioner Versus Uttarakhand Transport Corporation and Others --Respondents Hon'ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. I.D. Paliwal, learned counsel for petitioner. 2. Mr. Manish Kumar, learned counsel holding brief of Mr. Ashish Joshi, learned counsel for respondents. 3. Petitioner has challenged the order dated 01.06.2022 passed by respondent no.2, whereby, recovery has been made from the payment of gratuity of petitioner as well as from the payment of arrears of salary, amounting to Rs.3,83,622/-, and further a direction to the respondents to return the amount which was so deducted. 4. It is contended by learned Counsel for petitioner that the controversy in this writ petition is finally settled by the Division Bench of this Court in Special Appeal No.245 of 2022 Managing Director, Uttarakhand Transport Corporation v. Ashok Kr. Saxena and batch, decided on 04.04.2024. It is further UKHC010138632026 2026:UHC:7029 contended that the case of petitioner is squarely covered by the judgment passed in aforesaid special appeal. 5. Learned Counsel appearing for respondents-Corporation also does not dispute this fact. 6. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of in terms of judgment dated 04.04.2024 passed in SPA No.245 of 2022 Managing Director, Uttarakhand Transport Corporation v. Ashok Kr. Saxena and batch. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 10.08.2026 PN PREETI NEGI Digitally signed by PREETI NEGI DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=63c75a8c4765581180a58d7478f adbe38331bac55c78b5f9f0276c16432f6a ab, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=2BA53171893B3C3CB3CC CAE81FAE064498483A83D84BDB0F9229 D5BF08D959AC, cn=PREETI NEGI Date: 2026.08.10 17:42:40 +05'30'