UNION OF INDIA & ANR. vs SH. RAJ PAL SINGH RANA & ORS.

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$~5 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 29.04.2025 + W.P.(C) 15941/2024 AND CM APPL. 15861/2025 UNION OF INDIA & ANR. .....Petitioners Through: Ms. Sarika Singh, SPC. versus SH. RAJ PAL SINGH RANA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. A K Behra, Sr. Advocate, with Mr. Vaibhav Kalra and Ms. Neha Bhatnagar, Advocates. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RENU BHATNAGAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioners, challenging the Order dated 16.01.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as, ‘Tribunal’) in Original Application No. 2973/2019 titled Sh. Raj Pal Singh Rana and Ors. v Union of India and Ors. (O.A.), allowing the said O.A. filed by the respondents herein with the following directions: “4.2. In view of above the following directions are issued:- (i) The respondents shall consider for granting pension to the present applicants taking the combined service in DoT and MTNL in light of the order dated 15.12.2023 in OA No. 1803/2018 passed by the Full Bench of this Tribunal. They shall take appropriate decision within a period of eight weeks from the date of Signature Not Verified Signed By:VIJAYA W.P.(C) 15941/2024 Page 1 of 3 LAKSHMI DOBHAL Signing Date:03.05.2025 18:32:36 receipt of a certified copy of this order.” 2. The learned Tribunal has passed the Impugned Order by placing reliance upon a Full Bench decision dated 15.12.2023 of the learned Tribunal in a batch of O.As., including the O.A. 2803/2018 titled Sh. Vipin v. Union of India and Ors., which, in turn, had placed reliance on the Order dated 16.11.2018 of this Court in Union of India and Anr. v Smt. Asha Devi, passed in W.P.(C) 9070/2018. 3. The learned counse