The Uttarakhand High Court has upheld the disqualification of a Gram Pradhan under Section 8(1)(q) of the Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016, holding that the educational certificate relied upon by her was not genuine. The Court observed that the Transfer Certificate purportedly issued in 1996 was inherently doubtful since it referred to the "State of Uttarakhand", although the State came...