JOGI ANIL KUMAR vs INDIAN COAST GUARD & ORS.

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$~12 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 11.06.2025 + W.P.(C) 8419/2025 & CM APPL. 36638/2025 (direction) JOGI ANIL KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Deeksha Prakash, Advocate. versus INDIAN COAST GUARD & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Sahaj Garg, SPC with Mr. Rudra Paliwal, GP with Mr. Rattan Negi, Indian Coast Guard for UOI. CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA JUDGMENT (ORAL) 1. The petitioner has sought following reliefs as extracted from prayer clause: a) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction setting aside/holding the action and reasoning of the Respondents, as communicated vide the Impugned Result dated 03.06.2025 declared on the Petitioner’s login portal whereby the candidature of the Petitioner was rejected as being illegal, arbitrary and violative of Articles 14, 16, and 21 of the Constitution of India, 1950; b) Consequentially, issue an appropriate writ, order, or direction directing the Respondents to induct the Petitioner from Stage – II of the ongoing recruitment process for the 02/2025 batch; W.P.(C) 8419/2025 Page 1 of 3 pages GIRISH Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA Signature Not Verified KATHPALIA Date: 2025.06.11 18:54:04 +05'30' Digitally Signed By:NEETU N NAIR Signing Date:11.06.2025 19:18:03 c) Allow the present Writ Petition with exemplary compensation, costs and litigation expenses in favor of the Petitioner and/or d) Pass any such other or further orders as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the interest of justice. 2. Broadly speaking, candidature of the petitioner was rejected by the computerised system in the process of recruitment as he failed to select stage II centre by 28.05.2025 at 2300 hours, which was taken as his unwillingness for stage II. Apart from that failure to u