RAILWAY BOARD AND OTHERS vs VEMPATI VENKATA SAI SESHAGIRI RAO AND ANR

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$~2 & 3 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 06.08.2025 + W.P.(C) 16119/2024 & CM APPL. 67713/2024 RAILWAY BOARD AND OTHERS .....Petitioners Through: Mr.Ruchir Mishra, Mr.Mukesh Kumar Tiwari, Ms.Reba Jena Mishra, Advs. versus VEMPATI VENKATA SAI SESHAGIRI RAO AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr.Ravinder Agarwal, Mr.Manish Kumar Singh, Mr.Vasu Agarwal, Mr.S.M. Zulfiqar Alam, Advs. for UPSC + W.P.(C) 16597/2024 & CM APPL. 70157/2024 RAILWAY BOARD THROUGH ITS CHAIRMAN & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr.Kushagra Kumar, SPC versus GAVIDI ANIL KUMAR & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Prashant Singh, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. These petitions have been filed challenging the Orders dated Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 16119/2024 & W.P.(C) 16597/2024 Page 1 of 7 By:REYMON VASHIST Signing Date:11.08.2025 18:34:13 22.04.2024 and 25.04.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as „Tribunal‟) in O.A. No.1850/2017 and O.A. No.1849/2017, respectively, allowing the OAs filed by the respondents in the respective petitions and directing the petitioners to offer appointment to the respondents in the place of their merit in the Engineering Service Examination, 2016 (in short, „ESE‟) in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering respectively. 2. To give a brief background of the facts in which the present petitions arise, the petitioners, vide Examination Notice No. 05/2016- Engg., invited applications for ESE 2016 for approximately 609 posts of Group A and Group B, including 29 posts for physically handicapped, in Cat-I-Civil Engineering, Cat-II-Mechanical Engineering, Cat-III-El