RAHUL KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

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$~66 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 16.01.2025 + W.P.(C) 554/2025 RAHUL KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Arjun Panwar, Adv. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr.Mimansak Bhardwaj, SPC with Mr.Rishav Dubey, GP and Ms.Vidya Mishra, Adv. for UOI Mr.Prahlad Devenda, SI, CISF & Mr.G. S. Rathore, AC, CISF CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 2510/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 554/2025 & CM APPL. 2509/2025 2. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the Reports of the Detailed Medical Examination (in short, ‘DME’), dated 16.12.2024, and the Review Medical Examination (in short, ‘RME’), dated 19.12.2024, by which the petitioner has been declared ‘Unfit’ for appointment to the post of Assistant Sub-Inspector (Executive) in the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination - 2022 (in short, ‘LDCE-2022’) on the ground of him being found to be suffering from Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 554/2025 Page 1 of 5 By:SUNIL Signing Date:20.01.2025 19:21:25 Genital Vitiligo. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the Impugned RME itself had referred the petitioner for an examination by a specialist Dermatologist at the VMCC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, who vide Report dated 19.12.2024, had declared the petitioner fit for duty. He submits that the petitioner is presently working as a Constable (General Duty) and in the course of his service, has been subjected to regular medical examination and found fit for duty. 4. He submits that post the rejection, the petitioner has got himself re-examined at the VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, on 20.12.2024, when again, it was re