LAKSHMI vs UPSC & ORS.

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$~66 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 30thJanuary, 2025 + W.P.(C) 1196/2025 LAKSHMI .....Petitioner Through: Dr. Amit George, Dr. Swaroop George, Mr. Mobashshir Sarwar, Mr. Rupam Jha and Mr. Abhinandan Jain, Advs. versus UPSC & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Ravinder Agarwal and Mr. Manish Kumar Singh, Advs. for R-1. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR SHALINDER KAUR, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 5786/2025 (exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 1196/2025, CM APPL. 5785/2025 & CM APPL. 5787/2025 2. The present petition has been filed by the petitioner, assailing the Order dated 15.10.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal (Tribunal), Principal Bench, New Delhi in Original Application (OA) No. 3977 of 2023, whereby the OA filed by the petitioner was dismissed. The petitioner also seeks quashing of Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:NEELAM W.P.(C) 1196/2025 Signing Date:04.02.2025 Page 1 of 9 16:59:17 the notice dated 28.11.2023 issued by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), to the extent that the candidature of the petitioner has been rejected. 3. The brief facts leading to the filing of the present petition as emerging from the record are that the petitioner was appointed as a Primary Teacher in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on 03.10.2006 and was serving in the said post till 22.07.2019. She was, thereafter, selected as Post Graduate Teacher (PGT), English under the Directorate of Education, Government of NCT, Delhi, pursuant to the Advertisement No. 04/2017. She could join the said post only after her technical resignation was approved by the MCD. The Department of Education had decided to count her past service rendered from 03.10.2006 to 2