SUVOJIT SARKAR & ORS. vs UNION OF INDIA

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$~60 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 25.02.2025 + W.P.(C) 2431/2025 SUVOJIT SARKAR & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Mandeep Baisala, Adv. versus UNION OF INDIA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Devashish Bhaduria, SPC with Mr. Gokul Sharma, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 11547/2025 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 2431/2025 2. This petition has been filed by the petitioners, praying for the following relief: “i. A direction to the Standing Screening Committee of the Respondent/CISF at CISF Headquarters, New Delhi to decide the correctness/antecedents of the documents produced by Petitioners No. 1 to 4, showing proof in support of the fact that no case/FIR is pending against them, within Two weeks, as no cases, whatsoever, are pending against the Petitioners herein..” 3. It is the case of the petitioners that the petitioners had applied Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 2431/2025 Page 1 of 3 By:NEELAM Signing Date:03.03.2025 18:08:06 for the post of Constable (General Duty). By a communication dated 21.01.2025 to the petitioner No. 1 and 24.01.2025 to petitioners No. 2 to 4, it has been informed to the petitioners that their cases have been referred to the Standing Screening Committee on the ground that they were found to be involved in criminal cases before joining the Central Industrial Security Force. 4. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the respondent has failed to appreciate that the petitioner No. 1 vide Order dated 10.01.2025, the petitioner No. 2 vide Order dated 21.11.2024, the petitioner No. 3 vide Order dated 30.03.2017 and the petitioner No. 4 vide Order dated 13.11.2024 already stand acquitted of the