JUDGMENT :

Vipin Sanghi, J.

We have heard Mr. Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner-Deepak Kargeti, Mr. S.N. Babulkar, learned Advocate General, representing the State of Uttarakhand, Mr. Murari Tiwari and Mr. Aditya Singh, learned counsels for the respondent-Dr. Harminder Singh Baweja and, Mr. B.P. Nautiyal, learned Senior Counsel on behalf of M/s Anika Traders.

2. The first of these petitions, being Writ Petition (PIL) No. 03 of 2023, was preferred at the end of December 2022, to seek the constitution of a High Level Enquiry Committee / independent Enquiry Committee for enquiring into the allegations of serious financial and administrative irregularities, allegedly committed by respondent No. 3, i.e., Dr. Harminder Singh Baweja, who was then posted as Director, Horticulture and Food Processing, Uttarakhand. In the petition, the petitioner made allegations that after his appointment on 27.01.2021 as Director, Horticulture and Food Processing, Dr. Harminder Singh Baweja, had caused a loss to the State and, to the people of the State, by revising the rates of Kiwi seedling plants from Rs.35/- to Rs.75/- per plant, and that of the grafted Kiwi plant from Rs.75/- to Rs.175/- per plan