Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital Employees Health Union Group C And D v. Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital & ANR.

$~193 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 4803/2025, CM APPL.22077/2025 (delay) ARUNA ASAF ALI HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH UNION GROUP C AND D .....Petitioner Through:

Mr. Sauraj Yadav, Mr. D.B. Yadav, Advs.

versus ARUNA ASAF ALI HOSPITAL & ANR.

.....Respondents Through:

Mr. Yeeshu Jain (ASC) along with Ms. Jyoti Tyagi, Advs.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN DATTA % 16.04.2025

O R D E R

CM APPL.22076/2025 (Exemption) 1.

Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

2.

The application stands disposed of.

W.P.(C) 4803/2025 3.

The present petition has been purportedly filed on behalf the President of Employees Group C & D of Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, 5 Rajpura Road, Delhi raising a grievance that the members of the petitioner's union used to use a room in the premises of the said hospital (Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, Rajpura Road, Delhi) as their office. However, sometime in February, 2014 the keys thereof was handed over to the Hospital Administration/ respondent no.1 for renovation of the office and thereafter, the said keys were not returned to the petitioner.

4.

Ex facie, by way of the present petition, the petitioner seeks to agitate a cause of action which accrued in the year 2014. The present petition is, 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 01/07/2025 at 21:14:50

therefore, hopelessly barred on account of delay and laches. 5.

During the course proceedings, it is also brought out by the learned counsel for respondent no.1, who appears on advance notice, that the present petition is supported by an affidavit of one Mr. Vipti Ram, whose services were terminated by the respondent no.1 more than two decades ago. 6.

In the aforesaid circumstances, this Court is not inclined to entertain the present petition. However, at this stage, learned counsel for the petitioner confines himself for seeking that the representation made by the petitioner as forwarded by the Health and Family Department, GNCTD vide letter dated 23.03.2016 to the respondent no.1, be duly considered and decided by the respondent no.1.

7.

Learned counsel for the respondent no.1 submits that the said representation shall be looked into and a decision thereon shall be taken under intimation to the petitioner. The said statement is taken on record. 8.

The petition is disposed of in the above terms. SACHIN DATTA, J APRIL 16, 2025/uk 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 01/07/2025 at 21:14:50