ABHISHEK KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

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$~91 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 07.01.2025 + W.P.(C) 17816/2024 & CM APPL. 75840/2024 ABHISHEK KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Ankit Siwach, Adv. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr.R.K. Shrivastava, SPC with Mr.Raj Kumar, AC/CISF, Mr.P. Devandra, SI/CISF, Mr.Amit Kumar, SI/CISF & Mr.Rahul Sinha, SI/CISF. Dr.Shaifali Gupta, Commandant/Spl. Gr-I, Ophthalmologists CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner challenging the report of the Review Medical Examination dated 05.12.2024, wherein the petitioner has been declared unfit for an appointment to the post of Assistant Sub Inspector (Exe) in the Central Industrial Security Force (in short, ‘CISF’) under the Notification being file no. E- 32017/ASI/E(LDCE)-2021/RECTT/305 dated 29.12.2022, on the following grounds:- Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 17816/2024 Page 1 of 3 By:SUNIL Signing Date:10.01.2025 20:31:59 2. The petitioner, placing reliance on the opinion obtained from the Guru Nanak Eye Centre, which had found that the Corneal Opacity suffered by him is not progressive and is present in the peripheral corneal, has filed the present petition. 3. This Court, by its Order dated 23.12.2024, had called upon the respondents to have an Eye Specialist join the proceedings of the Court today to guide us on the findings of the Guru Nanak Eye Centre. Pursuant to the said direction, Dr. Shaifali Gupta has appeared before us. She explains that, in terms of the guidelines on medical fitness, especially Clause VIII (Annexure 2 of the guidelines), opacities of any size or grade encroaching upon the central 6 mm of the cornea would be a cause for rejection