PRAVESH YADAV vs CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR

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$~11 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 25.09.2025 + W.P.(C) 11694/2022 & CM APPL. 34794/2022, CM APPL. 34795/2022 PRAVESH YADAV .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Manish Gupta, Ms.Sowmya China and Mr.Rishabh Rai, Advs. versus CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR .....Respondent Through: Mrs.Anubha Bhardwaj, SPP for CBI with Ms.Anchal Kashyap, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, praying for the following reliefs: “a) Issue necessary writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the Ld. Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, Delhi to finally decide and adjudicate the Original Application bearing no. 1724 of 2021 within one week from any date as may be fixed by this Hon’ble Court; and b) Issue necessary writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus staying the effect and operation of the Office Order bearing no. 191 of 2021 dated 14.07.2021 issued by the Respondent CBI to the Petitioner till the final disposal of the said OA No. 1724 of 2021 pending before the Ld. CAT, Delhi” Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 11694/2022 Page 1 of 2 By:REYMON VASHIST Signing Date:27.09.2025 16:21:33 2. We are informed that during the pendency of the present petition, on a submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner that the matter was pending before this Court, the O.A. itself has been closed by the learned Tribunal vide Order dated 17.02.2023. 3. We fail to understand how, once the petitioner had approached this Court only for an expedited hearing of the O.A. or of the interim application filed therein, the pendency of the present petition would have been a bar or a ground for the learned