Reserved on 26.08.2025 Delivered on 08.09.2025

IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL

Writ Petition Service Bench No. 393 of 2019

26^th August, 2025

State of Uttarakhand ………..Petitioners

Versus

Neerja Yadav ..……….Respondent ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Presence:-

Mr. P. S Bisht, learned Addl. C.S.C. for the petitioner/State.

No representation for the respondent.

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Coram : Hon'ble Ravindra Maithani, J.

Hon'ble Alok Mahra, J. (Per.)

The present petition under Article 226 of the

Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioner/State assailing the judgment and order dated 13.02.2019 passed by the Uttarakhand Public Service Tribunal, Dehradun, whereby the Tribunal interfered with the punishment order of censure entry awarded to the respondent and substituted the same with ‘warned to

be careful in future’.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the respondent was posted as S.H.O., Mahila Police Station, Srinagar (Garhwal) from 17.07.2015 to 06.01.2019. A Zero FIR registered at P.S. Central Faridabad was transferred to District Pauri and ]entrusted to the respondent for investigation