DR. KRISHNA BIHARI vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 13.01.2026 Judgment pronounced on: 18.03.2026 W.P.(C) 9907/2020 & CM APPL. 31584/2020, CM APPL. 39090/2022, CM APPL. 39091/2022, CM APPL. 4321/2025 DR. KRISHNA BIHARI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, Mr. Amartya Ashish Sharan and Mr. Akash Kishore, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Neeraj, SPC with Mr. Soumyadip Chakraborty, Adv. for UOI. Mr. Ravinder Agarwal, Mr. Manish Kumar Singh, Mr. Vasu Agarwal and Mr. Lekh Raj Singh, Advs. for UPSC. Mr. Ritesh Khatri, Adv. for R- 3. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KSHETARPAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN JUDGMENT AMIT MAHAJAN, J. 1. The present writ petition is filed against the order dated 23.09.2020 (hereafter ‘impugned order’) passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, New Delhi in O.A. No. 96/2017 2. Succinctly put, an Advertisement No. 12/2015 was issued by Respondent No. 2/UPSC in the year 2015 regarding vacancy of 5 posts of Regional Directors in the National Centre of Organic Farming, Ghaziabad, Ministry of Agriculture out of which one post was reserved for Physically Challenged Persons with Disability. T