HOSHIAR SINGH vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 13.01.2025 Pronounced on: 28.03.2025 + W.P.(C) 4736/2023 & CM APPL. 29170/2024 HOSHIAR SINGH .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Abhay Kr.Bhargava, Mr.Satyarth Sinha, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Ajay Jain, SPC with Mr. M. N. Mishra, Mr. Manoj Kr. Gautam and Mr. Harshit Batra, Advs. + W.P.(C) 13547/2023 X .....Petitioner Through: Ms.Ankita Gautam, Mr.Harsh Gautam, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Kavindra Gill, SPC for UOI + W.P.(C) 4556/2023 SACHIN .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Abhay Kr. Bhargava & Mr.Satyarth Sinha, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Vivekanand Mishra, Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C). 4736/2023 & Connected matters Page 1 of 34 By:RENUKA NEGI Signing Date:28.03.2025 20:24:35 SPC/UOI. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR JUDGMENT 1. These petitions have been filed by the respective petitioners, challenging the Impugned Orders by which the petitioners, as far as the W.P.(C) 4736/2023 and W.P.(C) 13547/2023 are concerned, have been denied promotion, while in W.P.(C) 4556/2023, the petitioner‟s appointment has not been confirmed and has been cancelled. 2. Since all the three petitions are based on common submissions by the learned counsels for the parties, and raise similar questions of law, they are being disposed of by way of this common judgment. 3. In W.P.(C) 4556/2023, however, certain additional issues also arise, which shall be dealt with separately in this judgment. W.P.(C) 4736/2023 4. As far as W.P.(C) 4736/2023 is concerned, the brief background of facts in which the present petition arises is that the petitioner was enrolled in the Border Security Forc