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Pooja Singh v. State of Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand HC1 Dec 2025WPSS/2080/2025

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High Court of Uttarakhand disposed of writ petitions challenging appointment of Assistant Teacher due to alleged domicile discrepancies. Court declined interference, directed District Education Officer to examine U.P. residence claims.

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District Education Officer directed to examine petitioner's claim of permanent residence in Uttar Pradesh without being swayed by Director's observations in letter dated 16.01.2025.

Pooja Singh Vs State of Uttarakhand — Education and Admissions | Uttarakhand HC (2025)

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SL. No.	Dat e	Office Not es, r epor t s, or der s or pr oceedin gs or dir ect ion s an d Regist r ar ’s or der w it h Sign at u r es	COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
			W PSS/ 2 0 7 6 / 2 0 2 5 W it h W PSS/ 2 0 7 7 / 2 0 2 5 W PSS/ 2 0 8 0 / 2 0 2 5 W PSS/ 2 0 8 1 / 2 0 2 5 W PSS/ 2 0 8 2 / 2 0 2 5 W PSS/ 2 0 8 3 / 2 0 2 5 W PSS/ 2 0 8 4 / 2 0 2 5 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J. Mr. Dushyant Mainali, Advocate with Mr. Nikhil Bhatt, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Rajeev Singh Bisht, Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State.
			2. Since common questions of law and fact are involved in these petitions, therefore they are heard together and are being decided by a common judgment. However, for the sake of brevity, facts of Writ Petition No. 2076 of 2025 (SS) alone are being discussed and considered. 3. Petitioner was appointed as Assistant Teacher in Government Primary School District Udham Singh Nagar, in the year 2024. A notice is issued to him on 04.11.2025, by District Education Officer, asking him to show-cause as
			to how he has obtained permanent
			resident/domicile certificate from State of
			Uttarakhand and State of U.P at the same time
			and has pursued D.El.Ed course from an
			institute situate in State of U.P. based on a domicile certificate of State of U.P.

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4. Learned counsel for petitioner su the authorities have predetermined th	bmits e issue	that as
is apparent from the observation	made	by
Director, Elementary Education, in	his le	tter
dated 16.01.2025, addressed to	Dist	rict
Education Officer, Udham Singh Naga	r.
5. Learned State Counsel is	right	in
submitting that writ petition is pre	mature,	as
only a notice has been issued to	petitio	ner,
asking him to put forth his version.
6. Learned State Counsel further su	bmits	that
Government Order dated 18.02.2003,	issued	by
Secretary, General Administration, D of Government of U.P. (enclosed as A	epartm nnexur	ent e-8
to the writ petition), dea	ls w	ith
domicile/ordinary residents and it p	rovides	in
Clause 3 that if a person or his p	arents	are
permanent residents of a Distric	t or	are
ordinarily residing in a District for	last th	ree
years, would be eligible for domicil	e/ordin	ary
resident certificate.
7. He submits that petitioner	has	not
impleaded State of U.P. as party w	hich al	one
can throw light on the subject and te	ll whet	her
there is any other Government Order	govern	ing
the field or whether the G.O. dated 1	8.02.2	003
was superseded by some other G	overnm	ent
Order issued later. 8. Learned State Counsel sub	mits	that

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ordinary resident certificate is as good as permanent resident certificate and merely by changing the name of the certificate, its effect does not get changed. 9. While declining to interfere with the matter at this stage, the writ petition is disposed of by providing that District Education Officer concerned will not be swayed solely by the observation made in para 5 of the letter dated 16.01.2025, issued by Director, Elementary Education and he shall examine whether petitioner claimed that he or his parents are residing permanently in State of Uttar Pradesh, while applying for the certificate in State of U.P. (Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.) 01.12.2025 Mahinder/ MAHINDER SINGH Digitally signed by MAHINDER SINGH DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=da6212e6e78d94ed3134842bc6a8d6ca168979ca7b8c2f031a92d1a18b08923c, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=AB77B7C5B240908B392BE84F5CDD4C2AF35DC4626D305B1BC9EA4BABA43D2B8F, cn=MAHINDER SINGH Date: 2025.12.01 18:49:34 +05'30'

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