GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI & ORS. vs INDER JIT DUA

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$~64, 65 & 67 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 2339/2025, CM APPL. 11024/2025 & CM APPL. 11025/2025 GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, Mr. Shashank Singh, Advs. versus INDER JIT DUA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sourabh Ahuja, Adv. + W.P.(C) 2340/2025, CM APPL. 11026/2025 & CM APPL. 11027/2025 GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI, & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, Mr. Shashank Singh, Advs. versus SATISH BIHARI MATHUR .....Respondent Through: + W.P.(C) 2347/2025, CM APPL. 11144/2025 & CM APPL. 11145/2025 GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, Mr. Shashank Singh, Advs. versus ASHOK KUMAR DUA .....Respondent Through: W.P.(C) 2339/2025 and other connected matters Page 1 of 22 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR Signing Date:28.02.2025 19:45:34 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 24.02.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. W.P.(C) 2339/2025, W.P.(C) 2340/2025 & W.P.(C) 2347/2025 1. These writ petitions emanate from a judgment dated 19 February 2024 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal 1 in three original applications. The Tribunal has treated OA 3058/2016, filed by Satish Bihari Mathur, the respondent in WP (C) 2340/2025, as the lead case. We also, therefore, would be referring to the facts apropos Satish Bihari Mathur. 2. The reference to the “respondent” would, therefore, be a reference to Satish Bihari Mathur. 3. The respondent was appointed as Drawing Instructor with the Directorate of Training and Technical Education2. Following the recommendations of a committee known as the Madan Committee, 87 posts of Junior Lecturer, Senior Drawing Instructor and Demonstrator 1 “the Tribunal” hereinafter 2