BISWAJIT GHOSH & ORS. vs UNION OF INDIA

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$~40 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 4029/2025, CM APPL. 18714/2025 BISWAJIT GHOSH & ORS. .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Mandeep Baisala and Mr. Dhananjay Singh, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA ......Respondent Through: Mr. Vineet Dhanda, CGSC with Ms. Akansha Choudhary, Ms. Shweta Shandlya and Mr. Sumit Sharma, Advs. for UOI with Mr. H.K. Sourastiya, AC and Mr. Atul Kumar, SI (CISF) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL ORDER (ORAL) % 01.04.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. The petitioner has moved this Court by means of the present writ petition, challenging the decision of the respondent to refer the petitioners’ case to the Standing Screening Committee of the Central Industrial Security Force1. 2. Mr. Mandeep Baisala, learned Counsel for the petitioners has drawn our attention to an order dated 10 February 2025 passed by a Coordinate Division Bench of this Court in Waman Mahendra Navnath v UOI2 in which this Court, in similar circumstances, has directed the Standing Screening Committee to take a decision within 1 “CISF” hereinafter 2 MANU/DE/0978/2025 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:AJIT W.P.(C) 4029/2025 Page 1 of 2 KUMAR Signing Date:02.04.2025 19:12:01 four weeks. 3. Ms. Akansha Choudhary, learned Counsel for the respondent prays that, in the present case, the respondents have to requisition information from outside and that, therefore, they may be given eight weeks. 4. She also submits that the next training schedule, which is also tentative, is also only after six months. 5. In that view of the matter, we dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to ensure that the Standing Screening Committee take a decision on the petitioners’ application positively within a period of eight weeks