PRAMOD KUMAR RAWAT vs UNION OF INDIA

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 14.11.2025 Pronounced on: 23.12.2025 + W.P.(C) 6557/2021 & CM APPL. 20574/2021 PRAMOD KUMAR RAWAT .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Ajai Kumar Srivastava, Adv. versus UNION OF INDIA .....Respondents Through: Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, CGSC with Mr.Ruchir Mishra and Mr.Siddharth Bajaj, Advs. for UOI CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN JUDGMENT NAVIN CHAWLA, J. 1. This petition has been filed challenging the Order dated 14.01.2021 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No. 2092/2019, titled Pramod Kumar Rawat v. Union of India through Secretary Ministry of Home Affairs, dismissing the O.A. filed by the petitioner herein. FACTS OF THE CASE 2. Briefly stated, the facts in which the present petition arises are that the petitioner was working as a Section Officer in the Ministry of Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 6557/2021 Page 1 of 15 By:REYMON VASHIST Signing Date:23.12.2025 17:48:52 Home Affairs (MHA) and retired on 30.09.2009. 3. While he was in service, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted a search of his residential premises on 28.05.2005 and 30.05.2005. On the basis of the material collected by them, FIR No. RCEOU-I 2007 A0001 dated 19.04.2007 was lodged against the petitioner for possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income during the period 01.01.1996 to 30.05.2005. On 07.07.2009, sanction was accorded for his prosecution for offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (‘PC Act’). 4. Parallelly, disciplinary proceedings under Rule 14 of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1965, [‘CCS(CCA) Rul