SANJAY SINGH MEEN vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

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$~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 Page 1 of 18 years. These included twenty posts of Engineer (RE-Civil). The advertisement, inter alia, contained the following stipulation: “While applying for the post, the applicant should ensure that he/she fulfills the eligibility and other norms mentioned above, as on the specified dates and that the particulars furnished are correct in all respects. In case it is detected at any stage of recruitment that a candidate does not fulfill the eligibility norms and/or that he/she has furnished any incorrect/false information or has suppressed any material fact(s), his/her candidature will stand automatically cancelled. If any of the above shortcoming(s) is/are detected