RAJESH KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 20th November, 2025 Pronounced on: 27th November, 2025 W.P.(C) 11077/2019 RAJESH KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sudhir Nandrajog, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Raghunath Pathak and Ms. Ankita Singh, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, SPC with Mr. Sumit Kumar Raj, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH MEHTA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MINI PUSHKARNA JUDGEMENT MINI PUSHKARNA, J. 1. The present writ petition has been filed seeking to quash and set aside the Office Order dated 12th April, 2019, issued by the respondent, i.e., Indo- Tibetan Border Force (“ITBP”). By way of the said Office Order, the petitioner herein has been declared “Invalidation Medical Board Out” w.e.f. 12th April, 2019, for being afflicted with “Alcohol Dependence Syndrome with Nicotine/Tobacco Abuse” and “Diabetes Mellitus (“DM”) Type-II”. 2. The petitioner joined the ITBP as a constable on 11th August, 2007, and was posted under Commandant 33rd Battalion, ITBP. He was kept in Low Medical Category S-5 w.e.f. 16th July, 2011, on the ground that he was an alcohol addict. 3. The petitioner was sent for examination