SQN LDR MOHD AQIB vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

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$~37 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 19.02.2025 + W.P.(C) 2151/2025 SQN LDR MOHD AQIB .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Sudhanshu Shekhar Pandey, Adv. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Himanshu Pathak, SPC, Mr.Sarvesh Srivastava, GP, Mr.Amit Singh, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 10109/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 2151/2025 & CM APPL. 10108/2025 2. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the order dated 11.02.2025 passed by the learned Armed Tribunal Forces, Principal Bench, New Delhi (in short, ‘Tribunal’) in Original Application, being O.A. 5262/2024, titled Sqn Ldr Mohd Aqib v. Union of India & Ors., whereby the learned Tribunal has rejected the prayer for the interim relief to the petitioner against his posting at Saraswa, Saharanpur District, State of Uttar Pradesh. 3. It is the case of the petitioner that the petitioner was Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed WP(C) 2151/2025 Page 1 of 10 By:SUNIL Signing Date:21.02.2025 12:10:09 commissioned into the Technical Branch of the Indian Air Force on 08.07.2012, and was posted at Yelahanka, Bangalore. He applied for pre-mature separation from service on 13.06.2023. The same was approved vide Order dated 21.09.2023, with his provisional PSS scheduled for 01.03.2024. However, just 13 days prior to his due date of pre-mature retirement, the petitioner was informed that his request for pre-mature separation had been cancelled vide Oder dated 15.02.2024. Thereafter, the petitioner received an order whereby he was informed that he had been attached to D(I&T) from 02.04.2024. He was also informed that the respondents, vide Order dated 12.04