UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs MS. SULEKHA SAGAR AND ANR.

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$~59 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 21.08.2025 + W.P.(C) 12622/2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr. P. S. Singh, CGSC with Ms. Minakshi Singh, Mr. Ashutosh Bharti and Mr. Rajneesh Kumar Sharma, Advs. versus MS. SULEKHA SAGAR AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: None. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 51471/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 12622/2025 & CM APPL. 51472-73/2025 2. This petition has been filed, challenging the Order dated 07.04.2025 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as ‘Tribunal’), in O.A. No. 1284/2020, titled Ms. Sulekha Sagar & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors., allowing the O.A. filed by the respondent herein with the following direction: Signature Not Verified W.P.(C) 12622/2025 Signed By:SHAMBHU Page 1 of 4 SHARAN CHAUDHARY “6.1 In view of above, the OA is allowed thereby quashing the impugned decision. We direct the respondents to accord promotion and seniority on notional basis above immediate junior to the applicants. Consequential order(s) may follow within period of two months from date of receipt of certified copy of this order. Pending applications, if any disposed of. No costs.” 3. To give a brief background of the facts from which the present petition arises, the respondents were accorded placement in CCS Senior Selection Grade (Director), subject to their successful completion of the mandatory level ‘F’ training under CCS-CTP. They were promoted vide Office Memorandum dated 13.11.2017, granting them seniority at serial nos. 53A and 61A upon completion of the training on 11.10.2017. The respondents, however, were aggrieved b