JAI MANGAL RAI vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 10 October 2025 Pronounced on: 5 January 2026 W.P.(C) 84/2019 JAI MANGAL RAI ..... Petitioner versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ..... Respondents W.P.(C) 104/2019 INSPECTOR (GD) LAXMAN ..... Petitioner versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ..... Respondents W.P.(C) 108/2019 INSPECTOR (GD) SANJAY KUMAR PANDEY ..... Petitioner versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ..... Respondents W.P.(C) 174/2019 INSPECTOR (GD) MANOJ KUMAR SINGH ..... Petitioner versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ..... Respondents W.P.(C) 3425/2019 1. By order dated 25 February 2019, a Division Bench of this Court referred these matters to a Larger Bench of three Judges, as the Division Bench felt that, on the issue in controversy in these writ petitions, different Division Benches of this Court had ruled differently. 2. We have heard Mr. Ankur Chhibber, learned Counsel for the petitioners, and Mr. Farman Ali, Mr. Ripudaman Bharadwaj, Mr. Subhash Tanwar and Mr. Manish Mohan, learned CGSC for the respondents, at length. 3. To our mind, the issue in controversy can be decided by a mere reference to the applicable Rule. 4. Facts in these writ petitions being identical, we refer to the