UOI & ORS vs RAJESH BHUTANI

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 03.12.2025 W.P.(C) 7108/2007 UOI & ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Mukul Singh (CGSC), Ms.Ira Singh, Mr. Aryan Dhaka Advs. versus RAJESH BHUTANI .....Respondent Through: None. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed challenging the Order dated 08.06.2007 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’), in O.A. No. 976 of 2005, titled Rajesh Bhutani v. Union Of India & Ors., allowing the O.A. filed by the respondent herein, with the following directions: “14. We set aside the Annexure A-1 dated 25.12.2004 as well as the appellate order. At this distance of time, it may not serve any purpose by remitting the matter for a de novo inquiry. Taking notice of the totality of the circumstances, we direct that the applicant is to be readmitted to duty, but, of course, he has to suffer inconvenience, for the manner, in which he had conducted himself, while employed as a railway servant. The applicant is to be reengaged, in the post in which he was employed at the time of