MANOJ KUMAR SURELA AND ORS. vs DIRECTORATE OF EDUCATION AND ORS

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$~58 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 06.02.2025 + W.P.(C) 789/2025, CM APPL. 7224/2025 MANOJ KUMAR SURELA AND ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Ms. Disha Gupta, Ms. Gayatri Virmani and Mr. Soorya Gayathry, Advs. versus DIRECTORATE OF EDUCATION AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Nitesh Kumar Singh, Ms. Laavanya Kaushik, Ms. Aliza Alam, Mr. Mohnish Sehrawat, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR NAVIN CHAWLA, J (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed challenging the Order dated 07.12.2023 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal (“Tribunal”), Principal Bench, New Delhi in Original Application (“O.A.”) No. 3230/2023 titled Mr. Manoj Kumar Surela & Ors. Vs. Directorate of Education & Ors. 2. By the Impugned Order, the learned Tribunal has dismissed the O.A. filed by the petitioners herein, while observing that the question of normalisation of the examinations conducted for male and female candidates would not arise as the only difference is of the gender of Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 789/2025 Page 1 of 3 By:NEELAM Signing Date:08.02.2025 13:04:48 the two categories while all educational qualification and requirements are the same and for the same post. 3. The petitioners are in fact aggrieved of a common seniority list being published by the respondents, merging the male and female candidates for the post of Educational and Vocational Guidance Counsellors (“EVGC”). The examinations for the same were conducted on 12.08.2018 and 19.08.2018 for males and females respectively, and the results thereof, were declared on 07.03.2019 and 13.03.2019, respectively. At that stage, the petitioners never raised any grievance of normalisation. It was raised only when, pursuant to the Or