GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS vs NISHA

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 19 February 2025 Pronounced on: 1 July 2025 + W.P.(C) 373/2024 & CM APPL. 1755/2024 GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mrs. Avnish Ahlawat, SC with Mr. Nitesh Kumar Singh, Ms. Laavanya Kaushik, Mr. Mohnish Sehrawat and Ms. Aliza Alam, Advs. versus NISHA .....Respondent Through: Mr. M.K. Bhardwaj, Ms. Priyanka M. Bhardwaj and Mr. Maria Mugesh Kannan, Advs. + W.P.(C) 10587/2024, CM APPLs. 43555/2024 & 43557/2024 GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR .....Petitioners Through: Mrs. Avnish Ahlawat, SC with Mr. Nitesh Kumar Singh, Ms. Laavanya Kaushik, Mr. Mohnish Sehrawat and Ms. Aliza Alam, Advs. versus JYOTI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Pardeep Dahiya and Ms. Mahima Benipuri, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL JUDGMENT % 01.07.2025 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR W.P.(C) 373/2024 & W.P.(C) 10587/2024 Page 1 of 53 Signing Date:01.07.2025 13:29:56 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. Both these writ petitions arise out of judgments passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal1, on 8 December 2023 in OA 1538/20222 and on 10 October 2023 in OA 472/20193. The issue in controversy in both these cases being similar, they were heard together. This judgment disposes of both the writ petitions. WP (C) 10587/2024 [GNCTD and Anr. v Jyoti] Facts 2. The respondent Jyoti belongs to the Nai community, which, according to the recitals in the OA4 filed by her before the Tribunal, is recognised as an OBC5 by Resolutions dated 24 May 1995, 19 June 2003 and 17 February 2014 issued by the GNCTD6. It figures at serial No. 43 of the list of castes notified as OBCs by the GNCTD. 3. On 2 January 2013 and 12 July 2017, the Deputy Commissioner7 (South West District) Delhi and t