WPSB/326/2026 of CHANDAN KUMAR SONI Vs BIPIN TRIPATHI KUMAON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DWARAHAT on 15 June 2026

SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS D1- 04

WPSB No.326 of 2026 Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J. Hon’ble Siddhartha Sah, J. Mr. Arvind Vashistha, Senior Advocate (through video conferencing) assisted by Ms. Devanshi Joshi, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. K.P. Upadhyay, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Hemant Pant, Advocate holding brief of Ms. Himani Upadhyay, Advocate for the respondents. The services of the petitioner were terminated based on some conviction in a criminal case. Now, the petitioner has been acquitted in appeal in that criminal case. The petitioner seeks reinstatement, as after termination of the impugned order, as well as the relief no.2 relates to the fact that the petitioner has already given multiple representations to the respondent authorities, but they have yet not taken any decision. Therefore, the respondent- authorities may be directed to take a decision on the representation that has been made by the petitioner. There are other allied reliefs also. Learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that similarly situated Brijesh Kumar Singh Bhoj, has already been reinstated in the service based on his representation, which was decided pursuant to the order passed in another writ petition; he restricts the relief to prayer no.2 at this stage saying that the respondent authorities may be directed to take a decision on the representation that was made by the petitioner within a stipulated time while reserving the rights of the petitioner to agitate the cause as and when occasion arises. Learned Senior Counsel appearing for the respondents submits that the case of the respondents is to be considered by the Board of Governors of the respondent- institute, which meeting would be convened sometime in near future. We are of the view that the writ petition may be decided finally at this stage by directing the respondent-authorities to decide the representation given by the petitioner. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the Board of Governors of the respondent-institute to take a decision on the representation of the petitioner, which are mentioned in relief no.2 of the writ petition, within a period of six weeks from today, in accordance with law.

(Siddhartha Sah, J.) (Ravindra Maithani J.)

15.06.2026 RV