AFR

Judgment on Board

Per Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice

1. Heard Mr. Sudeep Johri and Mr. J.K. Gupta, learned counsel for the appellant. Also heard Mr. Prasun Bhaduri, learned Deputy Advocate General, appearing for the State/respondents No. 1 to 3 and Mr. Shayam Sunder Lal Tekchandani, learned counsel, appearing for respondent No. 4.

2. The present intra-Court appeal has been preferred by the appellant against the order dated 03.03.2026 passed by the learned Single Judge in WPS No. 773 of 2025 (Dr. Rakesh Gupta vs. The State of Chhattisgarh & Others), whereby the writ petition filed by the writ petitioner / respondent No. 4 herein came to be allowed.

3. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that the impugned order passed by the learned Single Judge is wholly unsustainable in law as well as on facts and suffers from patent errors apparent on the face of record. It is submitted that the learned Single Judge has travelled beyond the settled scope of a writ of quo warranto and has erroneously interfered with a purely temporary administrative arrangement, despite there being no substantive appointment of the appellant on the post of Registrar.

4. It is further submitted