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Whether approved for reporting? Yes For the petitioner:

rt Mr. Hirdaya Ram, Advocate.

For the respondents: Mr. Rajat Chauhan, Assistant Advocate General.

Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge (Oral) Notice confined to respondents No.1 to 5 and 7.

No notice is being issued to respondents No.6, 8 and 9.

2. Heard.

3. Brief facts necessary for the adjudication of this petition are that in a process initiated by the Authorities to fill up the post of Part Time Multi Task Workers at Government Primary School Rajaina, District Sirmour, H.P., the private respondent was selected vide Annexure P-5 dated 18.08.2023.

In this process, the petitioner also participated. Feeling 2026:HHC:4662 aggrieved by the appointment of the private respondent, the petitioner preferred an appeal under Rule 19 of the Part Time Multi Task Workers Scheme, 2020. The main ground agitated in .

the appeal, as is evident from the order passed by the Authority on the said appeal dated 07.05.2025 (Annexure A-4) was that the private respondent had once failed in 8th class in Government Senior Secondary School, Koti Dhiman in the of month of March, 2008 and, thereafter, he arranged to qualify 8th class examination illegally from Himalayan Public Senior rt Secondary School, Chowri, District Chamba, H.P., during the session 2011-12 by taking admission in the said School. This according to the petitioner violated the terms and conditions of the Right to Education Act, 2009.

10. Primarily, the challenge of the petitioner to the 8th class certificate submitted by the private respondent, on the basis whereof, the said respondent was offered appointment as a Part Time Multi Task Worker, is that as the private respondent was more than 14 years of age as on the day when he was admitted in the School from where he passed the 8th class examination, therefore, the certificate was a fraudulent, illegal 2026:HHC:4662 and invalid certificate.