Dr. Pallavi Patni v. State of Uttarakhand
Case brief
What is this about?
Uttarakhand High Court; decision date 17.03.2025; WPSB Nos. 323, 529 and 569 of 2017 decided jointly; Dental Surgeon recruitment by Uttarakhand Medical Services Selection Board in Medical Education Department; petitioners alleged selection vitiated by anomalies and sought quashing; selection concluded long back, no interim order for petitioners; writ petitions dismissed as infructuous by efflux of time; dismissed on counsel's statements, no merits decided; bench: Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J. and Ashish Naithani, J.; counsel: Vinay Kumar, Dinesh Gahatori (petitioners); P.S. Bisht (State); N.S. Adhikari holding brief of Ramji Shrivastava (Board); Mohd. Umar (respondents 4-9, 11-23).
What did the court decide?
In view of the statement made by learned counsel for the petitioners (that the selection process had concluded long back with no interim order granted in favour of the petitioners, rendering the writ petitions infructuous by efflux of time), these writ petitions are dismissed as infructuous; the court adjudicated no issue on merits.