PRAVEEN SAIN vs THE GOVT OF UNION OF INDIA AND ANR

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$~81 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 15.05.2025 + W.P.(C) 6493/2025 PRAVEEN SAIN .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Samrat Nigam, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Pradeep Kumar & Mr. Surender Kumar, Advs. versus THE GOVT OF UNION OF INDIA AND ANR.....Respondents Through: Mr. Piyush Gupta, CGSC with Ms. Lata Gupta, Ms. Aneja, Ms. Khayati & Mr. Akshay Jain, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE RENU BHATNAGAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 29649/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 6493/2025 & CM APPL. 29588/2025 2. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the Orders dated 18.08.2023 and 05.04.2025 passed by the learned Central Administration Tribunal (PB), New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No. 2147/2021(hereinafter referred to as ‘Original Application’) titled Mr. Praveen Sain v. The Union of India & Anr. and in R.A. No. 5/2024 (hereinafter referred to as Signature Not Verified Signed By:VIJAYA WP(C) 6493/2025 Page 1 of 5 LAKSHMI DOBHAL Signing Date:19.05.2025 18:14:49 ‘Review Application’), filed by the petitioner in the above O.A., whereby both, the O.A. as well as the review application, were dismissed. 3. To put it briefly, the facts giving rise to the present petition are that, pursuant to an Advertisement issued by the respondents, the petitioner applied for the post of Firemen (1101). In his application form, he admits that he, what he claims was by mistake, applied for the said post under the OBC (Creamy Layer) category. 4. Subsequently, the result of the examination was declared on 14.01.2021, and in the same, he did not meet the cut-off marks. 5. Aggrieved by the said result, he approached the learned Tribunal by filing the above O.A., claiming that h