HI GH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAI NI TAL HON’BLE THE CHI EF JUSTI CE MR. MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTI CE SUBHASH UPADHYAY

09^TH FEBRUARY, 2026 WRI T PETI TI ON ( S/ B) NO. 134 OF 2025 Dr. Amit Mewari …...Petitioner.

Versus State of Uttarakhand & others ….Respondents.

Counsel for the Petitioner : Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, learned counsel.

Counsel for the State : Mr. J.C. Pande, learned Standing Counsel.

Counsel for Respondent Nos.2 to 5 : Mr. S.S. Lingwal, learned counsel. JUDGMENT :(per Mr. Manoj Kumar Gupta, C.J.)

1. The petitioner is seeking regularization on the post of Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor and has also prayed for a writ of mandamus restraining the respondents from proceeding any further with the selection pursuant to the advertisement No.A-28/ 2025 dated

27.01.2025.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he was engaged as Teaching Personnel (Maths) in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences of College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar during 2^nd Semester of the Academic Year 2005-06. Although, the engagement was purely on contractual basis for one academic session, but it was extend