ASHISH KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA AND ANR.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Decided on 16.04.2025 W.P.(C) 10630/2018 & CM APPL. 48749/2023 ASHISH KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sarvesh Singh and Ms. Rajeshwari Mitra, Advocates. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Avnish Singh, SPC with Mr. Devender Singh, Advocates for UOI. Mr. Manoj, Advocate for R-2. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN PRATEEK JALAN, J. (ORAL) 1. The present writ petition pertains to a recruitment exercise conducted by respondent No. 2 - Food Corporation of India [“FCI”] in the year 2015. 2. By an advertisement/notification issued in February 2015, FCI invited applications for various posts, including for the post of Assistant Grade III (Depot). The vacancies were advertised by category and zone. The petitioner applied in the unreserved category for the North Zone, for which 331 vacancies were advertised. He was originally placed in the wait list at S.No. 188. 3. The petitioner filed this writ petition on 03.10.2018, contending that FCI had several vacancies for the concerned post in the North Zone, but was not filling the vacancies from the wait list. He, therefore, sought the following reliefs: “a) Direct the Res