UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION vs NIPUN MATHUR AND ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI W.P.(C) 320/2025, CM APPLs. 1511/2025 & 1512/2025 UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION .....Petitioner Through: Mr. R.V. Sinha, Mr. Amit Sinha, Ms. Shriya Sharma and Ms. Nidhi Singh, Advs. versus NIPUN MATHUR AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Ankur Chhibber and Mr. Anshuman Mehrotra, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL ORDER (ORAL) % 04.03.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. One of the contentions that have been advanced by Mr. Sinha, who appears for the petitioner in this writ petition is that the Central Administrative Tribunal1 has, while deciding OA 522/2022 by the judgment dated 16 January 2024 under challenge in the present writ petition, proceeded on the erroneous premise that, against the total number of advertised vacancies of 578, which were to be filled by Limited Departmental Competitive Examination in 2015, only 440 candidates had been appointed thereby leaving 138 vacancies unfilled. 2. Mr. Sinha acknowledges that, in fact, out of the total vacancies 2024. However, the Tribunal has dismissed the said review application without entering into merits on the ground that no case for review was mad