UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs DR VIJAI S KARWARSAR AND ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 06.08.2025 W.P.(C) 9843/2025 & CM APPL. 41134/2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr.Varun Vats, SPC versus DR VIJAI S KARWARSAR AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr.Sourabh Ahuja and Mr.Pradeep Kumar and Ms.Anjali Bansal, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioners, challenging the Order dated 09.01.2025 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the, ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No.2000/2023, titled Dr.Vijai S. Karwasara & Ors. v. Union of India through its Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Ors., allowing the O.A. filed by the respondents herein with the following direction: “7.1. In view of the above, the OA is allowed, the impugned orders dated 9.6.2023 and 15.6.2023 are liable to be quashed and set aside. Accordingly, in our considered opinion the applicants, who have completed four years of service in Grade pay of Rs.4,800, are entitled to get benefit of Non Functional Up 2. To give a brief background of the facts in whic