SH ANKUR GARG vs DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY THROUGH ITS VICE CHANCELLOR

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 7th January, 2026. Pronounced on: 10th March, 2026. Uploaded on: 13th March, 2026. + W.P.(C) 19665/2025, CM APPL. 82079/2025 SH ANKUR GARG .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Puneet Rathi and Mr. Md. Shahrukh Qureshi, Advocates. versus DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY THROUGH ITS VICE CHANCELLOR .....Respondent Through: Mrs. Avnish Ahlawat, SC for GNCTD with Mr. N.K. Singh, Ms. Aliza Alam and Mr. Mohnish Sehrawat, Advocates. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV NARULA JUDGMENT SANJEEV NARULA, J.: 1. The present writ petition raises a claim for regularisation by a contractual employee engaged by Delhi Technological University (“University”) as Junior Office Assistant, and a connected challenge to the decision of the University to proceed with regular recruitment to the post presently occupied by him on contract. The petition, in essence, seeks to convert a long-standing contractual engagement into a right to absorption, and to halt a recruitment process that is otherwise open to the public at large. 2. This petition was heard along with W.P.(C) 10830/2020, titled Mohd. Ansari & Ors. v. Delhi Technological University. By a separate judgment pronounced today, that writ petition has been allowed and directions have Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 19665/2025 Page 1 of 9 By:ANITA BAITAL Signing Date:13.03.2026 17:49:44 been issued in relation to the Petitioners therein. That judgment sets out, at length, the governing principles on regularisation and the narrow corridor in which writ relief may be fashioned without trespassing upon Articles 14 and 16. Those principles are not repeated here. The present case, however, rests on a materially different route of entry into service. That distinction alters the legal charac