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The Delhi High Court connected Thursday (March 19, 2026) issued announcement connected a plea filed by a assemblage of patent officers seeking removal of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM), Prof. Unnat P. Pandit, who heads the intelligence spot rights medication successful India.
The High Court issued announcement to the Centre and Mr Pandit aft taking enactment of a Supreme Court bid directing it to expeditiously determine the plea challenging his appointment. The High Court has listed the substance for further proceeding successful May.
The petition has been filed by the All India Patent Officers’ Welfare Association (AIPOWA) alleging that Mr Pandit’s assignment was “illegal and arbitrary” and made successful usurpation of prescribed eligibility criteria. appeared for the petitioner association.
According to the petitioner, represented by Advocate Gyanant Kumar Singh, the assignment process allegedly deviated from authorities norms, including the request of an unfastened advertisement arsenic mandated nether a Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) Office Memorandum.
The petition further claims that Mr Pandit lacked the requisite acquisition and did not person the mandatory 5 years of Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs)/Annual Performance Appraisal Reports (APARs) required for deputation appointments. It besides alleges irregularities successful the enactment process, including a alteration successful the creation of the Search Committee aft its archetypal gathering and the determination to proceed without issuing a caller advertisement.
Additionally, the plea contends that the assignment was made for a five-year word successful usurpation of DoPT norms which prescribe an archetypal tenure of 3 years, extendable by 2 much years. The relation has argued that the process denied eligible candidates an accidental to use aft the authorities allegedly moved distant from the Central Staffing Scheme way and opted for a Search Committee mechanism.
