IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

CWP No.2271 of 2024

Date of Decision: 28.11.2025

_______________________________________________________ Pardeep Kumar ……..Petitioner

Versus H

State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. ….Respondents _______________________________________________________

Coram: f

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Sharma, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting? ¹ Yes.

For the Petitioner: Mr. Vijay Bir Singh, Advocate.

For the Respondents: Mr. Rajan Kahol, Mr. Vishal Panwar,

uAdditional Advocates General with Mr. Ravi Chauhan & Mr. Anish Banshtu, Deputy

oAdvocates General.

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Sandeep Sharma, Judge (oral)

Precisely, the question, which needs to be determined in

the hcase at hand is that “Whether promotion from the due date, or from the date on which the promotional post became available, can be denied merely on the ground that meeting of Departmental Promotion

Committee could not be convened for want of certain clarifications?”

2. Explicitly, relevant facts, as emerge from the pleadings, adduced on record by the respective parties are that petitioner, after his having completed Matriculation in the year 1984, passed Diploma in the trade of