DINESH & ANR. vs COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR GENERAL & ANR.

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2026 Supreme(Online)(Del) 2978

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
MR. ANIL KSHETARPAL, MR. AMIT MAHAJAN, JJ
DINESH & ANR. – Appellant
Versus
COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR GENERAL & ANR. – Respondent

Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Ms. Puja Jakhar, Mr. Harshit Prakash, Ms. Ekta Bharati, Mr. Satyam Dwivedi, Mr. Shrey, Mr. Gagandeep RM, Mr. Gurveer Lally, Mr. Indranil Chakravorty, Mr. Shanker Raju, Mr. Nilansh Gaur
For the Respondents:Mr. Sanjoy Ghose, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Arun Sanwal, Mr. Aditya Mani Sharma, Mr. Rohan Mandal, Mr. Sahaj Garg, Mr. Rakh Pal Singh, Mr. Sambhav Sharma, Dr. Vijendra Singh Mahndiyan, Mr. Atul Tanwar, Ms. Neha Rastogi, Mr. Animesh Rastogi, Mr. Rajat Dubey, Mr. Shashank Pandey, Ms. Kanchan Semwal, Dr. Ishaan Swarana Sharma, Mr. Shubham Shukla, Mr. Ayush, Mr. Mukund Ranjan, Ms. Avantika Pandey, Ms. Vanshika Arora, Mr. Ripudaman Bhardwaj, Ms. Laavanya Kaushik, Mr. Amit Kumar, Ms. Pragati Trivedi, Mr. Kushagra Kumar, Ms. Khyaati Bansal, Mr. Vinay Kaushik, Mr. Ashish K Dixit

Table of Content
1. petitioners claim recruitment process was flawed due to late imposition of qualifying marks. (Para 1 , 2 , 4)
2. contesting arguments regarding authority to regulate examinations based on recruitment advertisements. (Para 16 , 17 , 18)
3. court affirms authority to set benchmarks before assessing candidates. (Para 20 , 21 , 22)
4. threshold marks were justified and non-arbitrary; participation indicated acceptance of terms. (Para 25 , 26)
5. final dismissal of petitions upholding tribunal's decisions. (Para 28 , 29)

JUDGMENT

ANIL KSHETARPAL, J.

1. Through the present batch of Writ Petitions filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, the Petitioners assail the correctness of the common Order dated 08.09.2025 [hereinafter referred to as „Impugned Order‟] passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi [hereinafter referred to as „the Tribunal‟], whereby the Original Applications instituted by the Petitioners challenging the prescription of minimum threshold marks in Paper-III by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research [hereinafter referred to as „CSIR‟] in Combined Administrative Services Examination-2023 [here

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2026 Supreme(Online)(Del) 2978

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHIMR. ANIL KSHETARPAL, MR. AMIT MAHAJAN, JJDINESH & ANR. – AppellantVersusCOUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR GENERAL & ANR. – Respondent

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
MR. ANIL KSHETARPAL, MR. AMIT MAHAJAN, JJ
DINESH & ANR. – Appellant
Versus
COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR GENERAL & ANR. – Respondent