Anil Kumar Yadav v. Union of India & Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Anil Kumar Yadav v. Union of India & Ors., W.P.(C) 15328/2025 (with CM APPL. 62789/2025 & CM APPL. 62790/2025), High Court of Delhi, decided 08.10.2025 by Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, CJ and Tushar Rao Gedela, J. PIL by a practising lawyer challenging the result of the Railway Recruitment Board's recruitment (CEN 01/2024) for Assistant Loco Pilots; petition dismissed as withdrawn after the Court indicated PILs in service matters are ordinarily not maintainable; liberty-type observation that individual candidates' grievances will be decided in accordance with law; no merits adjudication. Keywords: PIL maintainability, service matter, Railway Recruitment Board, CEN 01/2024, Assistant Loco Pilot, withdrawal, dismissal as withdrawn.
What did the court decide?
Permission to withdraw the writ petition; petition dismissed as withdrawn with protective observations for individual aggrieved candidates.