2026:UHC:752 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPSS 888/2024 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J. Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Rajeev Singh Bisht, Additional CSC, for the State. (2) Petitioners were engaged as Seasonal Collection Peon in District Haridwar. Their engagement, however, was discontinued in the year 2006. Petitioners filed Writ Petition (S/S) No. 1588 of 2023, which was disposed of with liberty to them to make representation to the competent authority for their reengagement and the District Magistrate was asked to take decision on petitioners’ representation. Representation made by petitioners was rejected by holding that now there is no post of Collection Peon available in District Haridwar. (3) Learned Counsel for the petitioners has drawn attention of this Court to information supplied under Right to Information Act, which is on record as Annexure-2 to the rejoinder affidavit. Based on said document, learned Counsel submits that four vacancies of Collection Peon are still available in District Haridwar, therefore the reason assigned for disallowing petitioners’ claim is unsustainable. (4) Learned State Counsel, however, submits that there are only 56 post of Collection Amin sanctioned in District Haridwar, whereas there are as many as 59 employees who are serving. Thus he submits that the stand taken by the petitioners, based on Annexure-2 to the 2026:UHC:752 rejoinder affidavit, is not correct. (5) Be that as it may, since petitioners contend that there are certain posts/vacancies still available in District Haridwar, against which petitioners can be accommodated, therefore, writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the competent authority to re-examine petitioners’ claim for reengagement, subject to availability of post/vacancy. This Court hopes and expects that necessary order shall be passed by the competent authority within three months from the date of production of certified copy of this order. (Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.) 10.2.2026 Pr PRABODH KUMAR Digitally signed by PRABODH KUMAR DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=3a082a00a95aff911a9559743af8f21c50602ff6eae4e61af3aeab198d46 2503, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=0DC111E8D8CA66E16B940EFDF806ACCC1AB588052DF6FCA58 C67F3C91957BE53, cn=PRABODH KUMAR Date: 2026.02.10 17:54:35 +05'30' 2026:UHC:752