SH ANKUR GARG vs DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY THROUGH ITS VICE CHANCELLOR

* 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 p