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DELHI HIGH COURT
RAJIV SHAKDHER, TALWANT SINGH
Manish Kumar – Appellant
Versus
Union Public Service Commission – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. document availability affects tribunal's decision. (Para 2 , 3) |
| 2. tribunal should reconsider decision with new evidence. (Para 4) |
| 3. opposition to petition limited by document knowledge. (Para 5) |
| 4. pending applications are closed. (Para 6) |
JUDGMENT
[Court hearing convened via video-conferencing on account of COVID-19]
Rajiv Shakdher, J. (Oral):
CM APPL. 3399/2022
1. Allowed, subject to just exceptions.
W.P.(C) 1178/2022
CM APPL. 3400/2022 [Application filed on behalf of the petitioners for taking on record additional documents]
CM APPL. 3401/2022 [Application filed on behalf of the petitioners for ad-interim ex-parte stay]
2. We have heard Mr. A.K. Behera, learned senior counsel, who appears for the petitioners, Mr Naresh Kaushik, who appears for respondent no.1/Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), and Ms Suparna Srivastava who appears on behalf of respondent nos. 2/Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) & 3/Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
3. What has emerged during the course of the hearing is that the document, which is appended on page 32 of the case file and marked as Annexure P-2, was not made available to the Central Administrative Tribunal
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