WPSB No. 127 of 2014

Hon’ble Rajiv Sharma, ACJ.

Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, Advocate for the

petitioner.

Mr. Pradeep Joshi, Standing Counsel for

the State.

Heard.

The

Uttarakhand

Public

Service

Commission (in short ‘Commission’) issued an

advertisement for Uttarakhand State Combined

Civil Service (Preliminary) Examination-2002

on 16.09.2002, for the various posts, including

the post of Block Development Officer.

Petitioner also participated in the said

selection process. The Commission sent a

communication to the Principal Secretary,

Government of Uttarakhand, whereby the list

of selected candidates was made available on

21.10.2005. Petitioner’s name also figured in

the said list. However, the Appointing

Authority raised certain queries with regard to

the O.B.C. certificate of the petitioner. The

District Magistrate, Champawat clarified the

same. Thereafter, the petitioner was appointed

on 30.11.2005 as Block Development Officer.

The petitioner has participated in the

selection process. His name was duly

recommended by the Commission. It was

merely on the basis of the query raised by the

Commission

that