UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs WORKERS UNION AND ANR

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$~34 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 01.12.2025 + W.P.(C) 18129/2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr.Siddhartha Shankar Ray, CGSC with Mr.Suryadeep Singh, Adv. along with Lt. Col. Sachin Dev Sally. versus WORKERS UNION AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr.B.L. Wancho, Mr.G.D. Chawla & Mr.Rajesh Chauhan, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 75017/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 18129/2025 & CM APPL. 75016/2025 2. This petition has been filed by the petitioners, challenging the Order dated 30.08.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. 2366/2023, titled Workers Union & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr., whereby the learned Tribunal, placing reliance on the Orders passed by the learned Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench, in Gurmit Singh v. Military Engineering Service (Order dated 05.06.2020 in Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 18129/2025 Page 1 of 3 By:REYMON VASHIST Signing Date:04.12.2025 18:14:23 O.A. No. 060/01228/2019) and in Birbal & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. (Order dated 22.07.2024 in O.A. No. 278/2023), allowed the O.A. filed by the respondents herein and issued the following directions: “13. It is quite surprising that all of a sudden, the respondents have passed the impugned orders conveying that there is not even a decision as yet for grant of Dress Allowance to the category of the applicants and as such the payment of allowance already made may be recovered, as clarified by PCDA, Chandigarh, and as such impugned orders of recovery were passed, that too in violation of the principles of natural justice.