AVNIT vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

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$~1 (SPL. DB) * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 4869/2021 AVNIT .....Petitioner Through: Mr. U. Srivastava, Mr. Gauraw Serawat Mr. M.K. Gaur and Mr. Anoop Kumar, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Naginder Benipal, SPC with Mr. Ankit Siwach, Mr. Udit Vaghela, Mr. Jaskaran Singh, Mr. Arjun Baliyan and Mr. Sarthak Sethi, Advs. for UOI CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT SHARMA ORDER (ORAL) % 12.12.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. REVIEW PET. 290/2025, CM APPLs. 28393/2025 & 28394/2025 1. The only ground urged by Mr. Ankit, appearing for the review petitioner, is that there were only three general category vacancies out of the 11 vacancies mentioned in para 14 of the order under review and the petitioner was the eighth candidate in the wait list. 2. He does not dispute the fact that none of the seven candidates above the petitioner approached the Court. 3. He is also not in a position to state that those seven candidates were still available at the time when we had passed the impugned Signature Not Verified W.P.(C) 4869/2021 Digitally Signed By:AJIT Page 1 of 2 KUMAR Signing Date:16.12.2025 17:10:49 order. 4. In that view of the matter, as the petitioner was the first candidate in the wait list who had approached the Court, there is no reason for us to review our order on this ground. 5. The second ground taken was that the unfilled vacancies had been carried forward and filled thereafter. We have already dealt with this aspect in our order. We have specifically noted that, in the absence of any directive to the effect that the wait list would not have been operated a second time, there was no justification for the respondents not to do so. 6. We, therefore, do not find any cause to review our order.