# AVNIT vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

Court: Delhi High Court
Date: 2025-12-12
Citation: W.P.(C)-4869/2021 2025:DHC:11389-DB
Petitioner: AVNIT
Respondent: UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

[Official PDF on Delhi High Court website](https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/showFileJudgment/CHS12122025CW48692021_170955.pdf)

## Judgment text (excerpt)

$~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 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 

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