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% 03.09.2025 CM APPL. 55522/2025 (stay) & W.P.(C) 10789/2025

1. The petitioner was serving in respondent No. 1 - Central Medical Services Society ["CMSS"] as General Manager (Administration) since 19.05.2016. By way of the captioned writ petition, he has challenged his Annual Performance Appraisal Report ["APAR"] grading for the period 2023-24, and has sought extension of his service in terms of Rules 5 and 9 of the CMSS Bye-Laws.

2. It is the petitioner's contention that he was initially appointed on contract for a period of five years, and his contract was extended from This is a digitally signed order.

The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 05/09/2025 at 23:27:50 time to time, lastly from 19.05.2023 to 18.05.2024. The contract was not extended thereafter. The petitioner further contends that his contract was extendable, subject to satisfactory performance in terms of Rule 9 of the CMSS Bye-Laws, but was not extended due to the unsatisfactory APAR for the year 2023-24.

3. By order dated 25.07.2025, notice was issued in the present writ petition, and the respondents were required to inform the Court of the likely timeframe for disposal of the petitioner's representation/appeal against the impugned APAR.

4. The petitioner has now filed this application for the following reliefs:

"a) Grant an interim stay restraining the Respondents, their agents, servants, or any person acting on their behalf, from appointing or continuing the appointment of any candidate to the post of General Manager (Administration), CMSS, in place of the Petitioner, pending final disposal of the present writ petition;
b) Pass such other and further orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the interest of justice and equity."

5. It is the petitioner's contention in the application that any recruitment conducted by CMSS to the post of General Manager (Administration), would be prejudicial to the relief he seeks in the writ petition. Paragraph 3 of the application reads as follows: