LAUV KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 04.03.2025 W.P.(C) 2676/2025 LAUV KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Rajshekhar Rao Sr. Adv. with Mr. Kshitij Sharda along with petitioner in person versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Amit Tiwari, CGSC with Mr.Hussain Taqvi, GP, Mr.Ayush Tanwar & Ms.Ayushi Srivastav, Advs. along with Maj Anish Muralidhar, Army & Sub Jagat Singh, DG Assam Rifles. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 12802/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 2676/2025 & CM APPL. 12801/2025 2. This petition has been filed challenging the Order dated 27.02.2025 passed by the learned Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’), in OA 3. The learned senior counsel for the petitioner submits that the Court of Inquiry has been ordered on Anonymous/Pseudonymous complaints, which, in terms of the instructions of the Government of India by an Office Memorandum dated 09.10.2024, should have been filed straight away. He submits that the respondents, on the other hand, are relying upon a policy dire