Central Administrative Tribunal Principal Bench, New Delhi O.A. No.3180/2025 WITH O.A. NO.3179/2025 Orders reserved on : 10.11.2025 Orders pronounced on : 09.12.2025 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ranjit More, Chairman Hon’ble Mr. Rajinder Kashyap, Member (A)

O.A. No.3108/2025 PRIYAL D/o Dushyant Kumar Aged 24 years R/o B-439, Yadav Market Road Samai Pur, Swaroop Nagar North West Delhi, Delhi 110042 ...Applicant (By Advocates: Shri Vikram Hedge with Shri Abhishek Wadiya and Ms. Trishan Dolly)

VERSUS UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Represented by its Secretary, Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road New Delhi - 110001 Represented by its Secretary ...Respondents (By Advocates: Shri Naresh Kaushik, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Vardhman Kaushik, Shri Anand Singh and Ms. Shikha John)

O.A. NO.3179/2025 Viplove Sudan, RID 12507741882 S/o Sh. Vijay Kumar Sudan, R/o House No. 131, Ward No.11, Shankar Nagar, Poonch, Jammu &

Kashmir – 185101.

...Applicant (By Advocate: Shri Akshay Bhandari)

VERSUS

1. Union Public Service Commission Through the Chairman, Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi – 110069.

2. Union of India, Through the Secretary, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions North Block, New Delhi - 110 001.

...Respondents (By Advocates: Shri Naresh Kaushik, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Vardhman Kaushik, Shri Anand Singh and Ms. Shikha John)

O R D E R Hon’ble Mr. Rajinder Kashyap, Member (A):

As the issues involved in both the aforesaid OAs are same, based on the same grounds and reliefs are also identical, therefore, with the consent of learned counsels of both the parties in both the above captioned OAs, we proceed to dispose of these two cases by this common Order. For the sake of convenience in writing of this common Order, OA No.

3180/2025 is taken as a lead case.

OA No.3180/2025 By filing the instant OA under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the applicant has prayed for the following reliefs:-

“(a) Issue admit card permitting the Applicant to appear in the Civil Services (Mains) Exam, 2025.

(b) Any other order that this Hon'ble Tribunal may deem fit and proper in the facts of the case.

OA No.3179/2025 By filing this OA under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the applicant has prayed for the following reliefs:-

i. Pass an order quashing the impugned action of the Respondents in withholding/ denying issuance of the admit card to the Applicant and consequently direct Respondent No.1 UPSC to issue the admit card to the Applicant and permit him to appear in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2025 scheduled from 22.08.2025 onwards, with all consequential benefits, including due consideration of his candidature in the said examination and further stages of the recruitment process, if he qualifies; and;

ii. Award costs to the Applicant;

iii. Pass such other order or orders as are deemed fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case.”

BRIEF FACTS OF THE CASE, AS STATED BY THE APPLICANT OF OA No.3180/2025

2. The Applicant is a graduate of Delhi University, having completed B.Sc. (Hons.) from Shivaji College with subjects including Mathematics, Computer Science, English, and Environmental Science.

2.1 The Respondent issued an advertisement for the Civil Services Examination conducted annually. In response, the Applicant submitted her online application on 13.02.2025 through the Respondent’s official website (Annexure A-1).

2.2 The Applicant thereafter received the Admit Card for the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination on 13.05.2025 (Annexure A-2).

2.3 The Applicant appeared in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination held on 25.05.2025 and successfully qualified, relevant pages of the Preliminary Examination results declared on 11.06.2025 (Annexure A-3).

2.4 Subsequently, the Respondent opened an online portal enabling candidates for the Civil Services (Main) Examination to make specific updates, such as opting for a scribe. These options were not applicable to the Applicant. The only other