Bipen Charak v. Union of India and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Delhi High Court, W.P.(C) 17562/2025 & CM APPL. 72543/2025, decided orally on 21.11.2025 by C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla, JJ.; judgment authored by C. Hari Shankar, J. Keywords: defective colour vision; CP-IV grade; CP-III grade; DME (Detailed Medical Examination); RME (Review Medical Examination); concurrent medical findings; suitability for promotion as Assistant Commandant; Sub Inspector (GD) recruitment review; medical guidelines on change of colour vision grade; disease or other factors; annual medical examination 2024 and 2025; SHAPE-I grading; vision 6/6; request for fresh medical examination refused; Staff Selection Commission v Aman Singh, 2024 SCC OnLine Del 7600 (followed); KM Priyanka v Union of India, 2020 SCC OnLine Del 1851 (followed); writ petition dismissed.
What did the court decide?
The fact that at recruitment the petitioner's initial DME finding of CP-IV colour vision was revised to CP-III on review cannot, 13 years later, be a ground to doubt the correctness of the current DME and RME findings.