Office Notes, reports, orders or SL. proceedings or No. Date directions and COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS Registrar’s order with Signatures WPSS/1148/2026 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Mr. Abhijay Negi, Advocate for the petitioners.

2. Mr. K.N. Joshi, Deputy Advocate General for the State of Uttarakhand.

3. Ms. Menka Tripathi, Advocate for respondent no. 2, through video conferencing.

4. Petitioners belong to different reserved categories, namely Scheduled Caste, Other Backward Classes and Persons with Disabilities. They are questioning the advertisement issued by Uttarakhand Public Service Commission on 30.12.2025 for the post of Lecturer.

5. By means of this writ petition, petitioners have sought the following reliefs:-

I. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Certiorari to quash the advertisement bearing number A-3/S-1/DR (L.I.C.)/2025 dated 30.12.2025 (Annexure No. 03; Page No. 38 to 81) as being contrary to the Government Policy on post based roster determination in letter number 124/XXX(2)/2020-53(01)/2001 dated 22.05.2020 (Annexure No. 02; Page 29 to 37);

II. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus, directing the Respondent No. 02 to re-determine the pos