RAJENDRA PRASAD TYAGI vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 25.04.2025 W.P.(C) 5334/2025 RAJENDRA PRASAD TYAGI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Yashvir Singh and Mr. Shamsher Singh, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Archana Sharma, SPC and Mr. Divakar Upadhyay, Adv. for UOI. Ms. Vaishali Gupta, Panel Counsel, GNCTD. Mr. Puneet Rai, Mr. Ashvini Kumar and Mr. Rishabh Nangia, Advs. for R- 2 and 5. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN DATTA SACHIN DATTA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL.24282/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. 2. Application stands disposed of. W.P.(C) 5334/2025 3. The petitioner has filed the present petition, inter alia, praying as under – “(a) Issue a Writ order or direction to the Respondents to pay monetary compensation of Rs.8,00,00,000/- (Rupees Eight Crore) for causing wrongful, malicious, illegal prosecution of the Petitioner thereby causing mental and physical torture, loss of dignity and harassment for the last of 26 years; (b) Issue a Writ order or direction to the Respondents to pay monetary compensation of Rs.2,00,00,000/- (Rupees Two Crore) to compensate the 4. The petitioner is an 83-year-old retired senior government of