Jatinder Pal Singh v. Union of India & Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
W.P.(CRL) 304/2022, Jatinder Pal Singh v. Union of India & Ors., High Court of Delhi, coram Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja, JJ.; order dated 13.04.2026 disposing of the writ petition (criminal) as withdrawn following the Court's order dated 24.03.2026 recording respondents' contention of infructuousness due to passage of time and subsequent developments; petitioner reserved liberty to agitate all issues afresh in appropriate proceedings. Respondent-side counsel included CGSC for R-1 and Special Standing Counsel, ED. Useful when tracking re-litigation of the underlying issues by the same petitioner; the judgment contains no ruling on merits, no statute references and no cited precedent.
What did the court decide?
Liberty to withdraw the petition, without prejudice to the rights and contentions of the petitioner, with liberty to agitate all issues in appropriate proceedings.