2009 (8) TMI 420

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....n 8(1), the petitioner is also required to clear the oral examination before the said licence is granted. The Regulation 8(1) also stipulates that written as well as oral examination shall be conducted by the Director General of Inspection at specified centres and specified dates, twice every year and intimation shall be sent to individual in advance. The said Regulation reads:- "8.Examination of the applicant: (1) Any applicant whose application is received within the last date specified in the notice or publication, as the case may be, referred to in regulation 4 and who satisfied the requirements or regulations 5 and 6 shall be required to appear for the written as well as oral examination conducted by the Director General of Inspecti....

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....clear the oral examination in terms of the regulations. 6. The aforesaid regulations were considered by a Division Bench of this Court in W.P.(C) 14439/2006 titled Yaspal Singh v. Union of India and Another. After examining the Regulations 8(1) to 8(3), it was observed as under:- "10. The consequence of the failure of the Respondents to hold the oral examination twice a year means that the Petitioner who could have got 4 chances of appearing in the oral examination only got two chances of appearing in the oral examination and by virtue of Regulation 8(3) of the Regulations, since the two years period has elapsed after the declaration of the result in the written examination, the Petitioner may perhaps not even be called again for an o....