LT COL PARAG DOVAL vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 19.02.2025 W.P.(C) 859/2025 & CM APPL. 4213/2025 LT COL PARAG DOVAL .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Akshay Bhandari, Ms.Madhuri Malegaonkar, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Shashank Dixit, CGSC with Mr.Rohit Gupta, Adv. & Mr.Amit Acharya, GP along with Major Anish Muralidhar, CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed, challenging the order dated 16.12.2024 passed by the learned Armed Forces Tribunal. Principal Bench, Delhi (in short, ‘Tribunal’) in OA No. 1682/2021, titled ‘Lt. Col Parag Doval v. Union of India and Ors.’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘first O.A.’), whereby the learned Tribunal has disposed of the said O.A. reserving the liberty of the petitioner to raise all the grounds that have been raised in the said O.A. in the subsequent O.A., that is, the second O.A. bearing No.3243/2024, filed by the petitioner and pending adjudication before the learned Tribunal. 2. Just as a brief synopsis, the facts giving rise to the present petition are that a Court of Inquiry (in short, ‘COI’) was convened vide