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Govind Saini and Ors. v. National Testing Agency and Ors.

Delhi HC10 Jul 2026W.P.(C)/939/2025

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What is this about?

CUET (PG) 2025; scribe facility; scribe personal details in online application form at threshold; benchmark disability / PwBD / PwD candidates; visually impaired candidates; National Testing Agency (NTA); Delhi High Court; W.P.(C) 939/2025 & CM APPL. 4580/2025; Article 226 Constitution of India; writ of certiorari; writ of mandamus; Examination City Intimation Slip; admit cards; Aadhaar/ID of scribe; interim directions 30.01.2025 para 11; compliance in letter and spirit; nothing survives; disposed; no appearance for petitioners; Jasmeet Singh, J.; 10.07.2026.

What did the court decide?

The interim directions contained in paragraph 11 of the order dated 30.01.2025 have been duly complied with by the respondents in their true letter, spirit and intent, and consequently nothing survives in the present petition. ¶23

Govind Saini and Ors. Vs National Testing Agency and… — Writ and Judicial Review | Delhi HC (2026)

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Disposed

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Issue for consideration

Whether the requirement imposed on candidates with benchmark disabilities, including the petitioners, to furnish the personal details of their scribe at the threshold in the online application form for CUET (PG) 2025 conducted by respondent no.1 (National Testing Agency) is unreasonable and discriminatory. +1 more

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Ratio / Principle

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Key takeaways

Since nothing survives, the petition is disposed of.ratio¶25
Nobody is appearing on behalf of the petitioners, which the judge presumes to be because the interim directions stand complied with.obiter¶24

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Delhi High Court (Jasmeet Singh, J.; order dated 10.07.2026) disposed of W.P.(C) 939/2025 & CM APPL. 4580/2025. Govind Saini and others, candidates with benchmark disabilities seeking the scribe facility in CUET (PG) 2025 conducted by the National Testing Agency (respondent no.1), had petitioned under Article 226 of the Constitution for (a) certiorari declaring unreasonable and discriminatory the requirement to fill in the personal details of the scribe in the online application form at the threshold, and (b) mandamus to modify the form so as to permit submission without furnishing scribe details at that stage, confining scribe information to a yes/no tick with options of an own or an arranged scribe. An earlier order dated 30.01.2025 (para 11) had given the petitioners the option to supply scribe details at form-filing, deferred scribe particulars until after the Examination City Intimation Slip but before admit cards, and directed NTA to make necessary modifications - expressly without creating special equity and subject to the outcome of the writ petition. On 10.07.2026 the court recorded that these directions had been duly complied with in their true letter, spirit and intent; observing that nothing survived and that nobody appeared for the petitioners, it disposed of the petition without adjudicating the substantive question of unreasonableness or discrimination. No monetary relief was involved and no precedent was cited.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

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- W.P.(C) 939/2025 & CM APPL. 4580/2025

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GOVIND SAINI AND ORS ....Petitioners

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Through: None versus NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Sanjay Khanna, Ms. Pragya Bhushan, Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Ms. Meemansa Dixit, Mr. Saurabh Pandey, Ms. Jaya Choudhary, Advs. Ms. Gauri Goburdhun, Sr.Panel Counsel and Mr. Shubham Prasad, GP Advs. for R2-3

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CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASMEET SINGH

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O R D E R 10.07.2026

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This is a writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking the following prayers :-

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“a) Issue a writ of Certiorari or any other appropriate writ order or direction thereby calling for the records relating to the requirement of filling up the personal details of scribe by the candidates with benchmark disabilities including the petitioners, requiring the facility of scribe, in the online application form for CUET (PG) 2025 being conducted by respondent no.1, at the threshhold, examine the same and declare it to be unreasonable and discriminatory. b) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction thereby directing the respondents

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This is a digitally signed order.

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The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 16/07/2026 at 11:54:46

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particularly No.1 to make necessary modifications in the online application for CUEG (PG) 2025 permitting the visually impaired and other categories of disabilities, requiring the facility of scribe, to submit their application online without furnishing the details of the scribe at this stage and limiting the information with regard to scribe about the option to take scribe by ticking yes or no and also option of arranging own scribe or seeking the arrangement of scribe. ...”

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Mr. Khanna, learned standing counsel draws my attention to paragraph No. 11 of Order dated 30.01.2025 which reads as under:-

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“11. In the meanwhile, following directions are issued: i. Let the petitioners be given an option of giving the details of the scribe at the time of filing of the forms. ii. National Testing Agency shall display the advance intimation for allotment of examination City for all candidates of CUET (PG)- 2025 along with the date of the examination. The candidates should be allowed to check/download their Examination City Intimation Slip using their application numbers and date of birth from the official portal: https://exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-PCT/. The Examination City Intimation Slip will provide the details of the Date of Examination and the City of the Examination Centre,

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iii. The information about the Scribe (such as his/her name. Date of Birth, Aadhar No./ID and Qualifications)

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This is a digitally signed order.

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The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 16/07/2026 at 11:54:46

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be provided by the PwBD/PwD candidates, who have opted to bring their own Scribe in the Online Application form, immediately after the issuance of the Examination City Intimation Slip but prior to the release of the Admit Cards. The process and mode of obtaining the details of the scribe be worked out in due course with advance intimation to the petitioners.

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iv. The respondent shall make the necessary modifications so as to enable the petitioners to fill up the forms as required for CUET (PG)-2025.

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v. The process so adopted by the NTA for the carrying out the above directions shall be intimated to the petitioners in advance; and

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vi. This shall not create any special equity in favour of the petitioner and such directions shall be subject to the outcome of the present writ petition.”

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The said directions have duly been complied with in its true letter, spirit and intent and hence, to my mind, nothing survives in the present petition.

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Presumably, for this reason, there is nobody appearing on behalf of the petitioners.

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In this view of the matter, the petition is disposed of.

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JASMEET SINGH, J

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JULY 10, 2026/AS

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This is a digitally signed order.

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The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 16/07/2026 at 11:54:46

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