SANJAY SINGH MEEN vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

$~P-2 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on:28.08.2025 Pronounced on:24.11.2025 Uploaded on:24.11.2025 W.P.(C) 10856/2025 & CM APPL. 44819/2025 SANJAY SINGH MEENA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Syed Kashif Hussain, Mr. Sameer Khan, Mr. Mohit Gaurav & Ms. Inza Shahzad, Advocates. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Ms. Gauri Goburdhun, SPC with Ms. Pinky Pawar, Advocate for UoI. Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Advocate for R- 2. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN JUDGMENT PRATEEK JALAN, J 1. By way of this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution, the petitioner, who was a candidate for the post of Engineer (RE-Civil) in respondent No. 2 – NTPC Green Energy Ltd. [“NGEL”], challenges a communication dated 11.06.2025, by which NGEL withdrew an offer of appointment dated 27.03.2025 issued to him, on the ground that the petitioner is accused in a pending criminal case, and concealed this information in his application form. 2. NGEL issued Advertisement No. 01/24 on 20.03.2024, for recruitment to various posts on a fixed-term basis for a period of three W.P.(C) 10856/2025 years. These included twenty posts of Engineer (RE-Civil). The advertisement,