UKHC010117612026 2026:UHC:5651 Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS WPSS No.1755 of 2026 Kishor Kumar Bhatt ………Petitioner Vs. Uttarakhand Transport Corporation and others ……….Respondents Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. I.D. Paliwal, learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. Mr. Shobhit Joshi, learned counsel holding brief of Mr. Ashish Joshi, learned counsel for the respondents. 3. By means of this writ petition, petitioner has prayed to issue a writ of mandamus commanding and directing the respondents to return back the arrear of amount to the tune of ₹1,18,827/- which has been deducted from the payment of leave encashment and gratuity. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the controversy involved herein has been set at rest by a Co- ordinate Bench of this Court vide judgment and order dated 14.06.2022 passed in WPSS No.1593 of 2021, Balam Singh Aswal Vs. Managing Director and Others and Batch, which was subsequently affirmed by the Division Bench of this Court vide judgment and order dated 04.04.2024 passed in Special Appeal No.245 of 2022, Managing Director, Uttarakhand Transport Corporation, Dehradun & Others Vs. Ashok Kumar Saxena, and Batch. 5. Learned counsel for the respondents has also submitted that the present matter is squarely covered by the judgment and order dated 14.06.2022, which was affirmed in Special Appeals vide judgment dated 04.04.2024, as referred above by learned counsel for the 2 petitioner. 6. In this view of the matter, present writ petition is allowed in terms of the judgment and order dated 14.06.2022 passed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in WPSS No.1593 of 2021, Balam Singh Aswal Vs. Managing Director and Others and Batch, which was affirmed by a Division Bench of this Court in Special Appeal No.245 of 2022, Managing Director, Uttarakhand Transport Corporation, Dehradun & Others Vs. Ashok Kumar Saxena and Batch, vide judgment dated 04.04.2024. The case of the petitioner shall abide by the aforesaid judgment and order dated 14.06.2022, which is later on affirmed vide judgment dated 04.04.2024 in Special Appeals as stated above. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 10.07.2026 SK SHUBHAM KAPRUWAN Digitally signed by SHUBHAM KAPRUWAN DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=a29a2f80b93835a432d093afc472d9355959ee0ff878380c645e17d5 46a24821, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=B505B049BA2FDAC35E7AE325DEE1505D6C35AF3D290C229 CDC609D61801E1E4F, cn=SHUBHAM KAPRUWAN Date: 2026.07.13 17:52:13 +05'30'