2026:UHC:1552 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPSS/7/2026 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J There is no representation for the petitioner. 2. Mr. Dinesh Bankoti, Brief Holder for the State/ respondent nos. 1 to 4. 3. Mr. Amit Tyagi, Advocate, holding brief of Mr. Neeraj Garg, Advocate for respondent no. 5. 4. Petitioner was engaged as Data Entry Operator on contract through UPNL in State Tax Department in the year 2016. His engagement was discontinued in the month of November, 2025. Petitioner filed Writ Petition (S/S) No. 146 of 2025, which was disposed of with a direction to the Commissioner, State Tax to consider petitioner’s claim for re-engagement against available vacancies. 5. Pursuant to the order passed by this Court, Commissioner, State Tax has re-considered the matter and passed an order on 06.11.2025, which is impugned in this writ petition. Perusal of the impugned order reveals that petitioner’s claim for re-engagement was rejected on the ground that there is no vacancy available on the post of Data Entry Operator against which petitioner could be engaged. 6. In the absence of any vacancy, there cannot be any direction to engage the petitioner through contract or through any other mode. Thus, there is no scope for interference. 7. The writ petition fails and is dismissed. (Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J) 10.03.2026 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=3be23325146e76a0642bdf4943fb9046f487df006da82 a131bb4e4403d3c0a15, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=18167EEFB5CA8CFFD421A103819DA875643AF 56D653D095C6ED9A86DAAB21CE5, cn=NAVEEN CHANDRA Date: 2026.03.10 18:19:36 +05'30'