Balwan Singh v. Union of India and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Employee transfer dispute; transfer from Rewari to Tezpur, Assam; medical grounds (Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder/COPD, Lumbar Spine Stenosis; petitioner admitted in hospital); representation against transfer undecided, no speaking order; consent-based disposal; direction to respondent to treat writ petition as representation and decide within four weeks; adverse decision in abeyance for one week; undertakings by learned SPC Sahaj Garg on instructions of DC Jag Davender Singh, ITBP; Union of India; W.P.(C) 6080/2025 & CM APPL. 27792/2025; High Court of Delhi at New Delhi; Justices C. Hari Shankar and Ajay Digpaul; oral order dated 08.05.2025; no statutes or precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
Direction to the respondent to treat the writ petition as the petitioner's representation and take a decision thereon within four weeks, communicating it to the petitioner forthwith; any adverse decision to remain in abeyance for one week thereafter to enable the petitioner to seek legal remedies.