The Delhi High Court dismissed a petition challenging a Central Administrative Tribunal order. The Court found no ground in the petition, observing that the representations regarding regularization of candidates had been lingering since May 2023 and declining to interfere.
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ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND ANR
..... Petitioners
Through: Mr. V.S.R. Krishna, Advocate.
versus
RAM PHOOL AND ORS ..... Respondents Through:
CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURESH KUMAR KAIT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA O R D E R % 02.07.2024
W.P.(C) 8864/2024
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“As can be seen from the above, the respondents are yet to take a decision whether the applicants would be regularised or not. It is not as if they have accepted the claim of the applicants. They are simply saying that it would be considered and examined before the Committee and then, Governing Body Meeting.
We are unable to accept such an argument inasmuch as the purpose of getting the representation disposed of is to take it one way or the other. Simply lingering on the matter without even committing whether the applicant's case is being considered positively or not, cannot be taken to be compliance. There have been numerous occasions on which the same argument has been repeated by learned counsel for the respondents.
Taking an overview of the matter, we grant further four weeks' time, as pleaded for by learned counsel for the respondents, to file a clear compliance affidavit either by
W.P.(C) 8864/2024
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extending the benefit that has been prayed for or if at all, it is in the negative, the reasons thereof should be clearly brought out in face of the claim of learned counsel for the applicants that hundreds of similarly situated candidates have already been regularised by the respondents. In case the compliance affidavit is not filed within four weeks, Respondent No. 2 (Dr. M. Srinivasan, Director, AIIMS', Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110029) shall appear in person before the Court.”
SURESH KUMAR KAIT, J
GIRISH KATHPALIA, J
JULY 2, 2024/ uk
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W.P.(C) 8864/2024
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ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND ANR
RAM PHOOL AND ORS
SURESH KUMAR KAIT
GIRISH KATHPALIA
As recorded by the court registry
A petition under Article 226 of the Constitution asking a High Court to issue a writ against the State or a public authority in a civil matter.
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