PRAYAS TYAGI vs SECRETARY GENERAL, SUPREME COURT OF INDIA AND ORS

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$~67 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Decided on: 09.04.2025 + W.P.(C) 10050/2023 PRAYAS TYAGI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Vikram Singh Dalal, Mr. Abishek Kumar, Mr. Pratham Chawla, Advocates. versus SECRETARY GENERAL, SUPREME COURT OF INDIA AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Rajshekar Rao, Sr.Adv. with Ms. Mansi Sood, Ms. Zehra Khan, Mr. Areeb Amanullah, Advocates for R-1 to 3 with Mr. Rajarshi Sharma. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN PRATEEK JALAN, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 21158/2025 (for early hearing) This is an application for early hearing of the writ petition. For the reasons stated and the consent of learned counsel for the parties the application is allowed and the writ petition is taken on Board. W.P.(C) 10050/2023 1. The challenge of the petitioner in this writ petition is to an order dated 21.10.2022, whereby his candidature for the post of Junior Court Attendant [“JCA”] in the establishment of the Supreme Court of India has been cancelled. The petitioner also seeks a direction upon the respondent to appoint him to the said post. The order records that the cancellation of the petitioner’s candidature was on account of a criminal case having Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 10050/2023 Page 1 of 9 By:SHITU NAGPAL Signing Date:12.04.2025 18:21:13 been registered against him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [“IPC”]. 2. By an advertisement dated 14.03.2018, the respondent called applications, inter alia, for 65 vacancies for the post of JCA. The petitioner was admittedly eligible and was called for a written test, skill test and medical examination, and was successful at all these stages. 3. The genesis of the controversy, however, lies in a First Information Report [“FIR”] lodged by the petitioner’s wife (with w