RITESH KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA

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$~31 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 9009/2025 & CM APPL. 38400/2025 RITESH KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Mandeep Baisala, Mr. Dhananjay Singh, Mr. Vivek Kumar and Mr. Vishwanath, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Varun Vats, SPC along with Mr. Gopesh Jindal GP, Mr. Krishan Das, DC, CISF and Mr. Amit Kumar Sharma, CISF. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL ORDER (ORAL) % 04.07.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. The petitioner has moved this Court by means of the present writ petition, challenging the decision of the respondent to refer the petitioners’ case to the Standing Screening Committee of the Central Industrial Security Force 1. 2. Mr. Mandeep Baisala, learned Counsel for the petitioners has drawn our attention to an order dated 10 February 2025 passed by a Coordinate Division Bench of this Court in Waman Mahendra Navnath v UOI 2 in which this Court, in similar circumstances, has directed the Standing Screening Committee to take a decision within 1 “CISF” hereinafter 2 MANU/DE/0978/2025 Signature Not Verified Signed By:AAKANSHA W.P.(C) 9009/2025 Page 1 of 2 SHARMA Signing Date:07.07.2025 19:34:29 four weeks. 3. Mr. Varun Vats, learned Senior Panel Counsel for the respondent prays that, in the present case, the respondent have to requisition information from outside and that, therefore, they may be given eight weeks. 4. He also submits that the next training schedule, which is also tentative, is also only after six months. 5. In that view of the matter, we dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to ensure that the Standing Screening Committee take a decision on the petitioner’s application positively within a period of eight weeks from today. Ordinarily, no ex