UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs RAM SINGH YADAV AND ORS

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$~26 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 17346/2024, CM APPLs. 73877/2024, 73878/2024 & 73879/2024 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Manish Kumar, Senior Panel Counsel with Mr. Kumar Gaurav, Adv. versus RAM SINGH YADAV AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Rizwan, Ms. Sachi Chopra and Ms. Nishtha Sinha, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 07.02.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. This writ petition challenges a judgment dated 4 April 2024 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal1 in OA 47/20212. 2. The respondents, who were the applicants before the Tribunal, were working as nurses on contract basis in Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital3. They moved the Tribunal by way of OA 47/2021 seeking 1 “the Tribunal” hereinafter 2 Ram Singh Yadav & Ors. v Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Nursing Section) & Ors. 3 “RML Hospital” hereinafter W.P.(C) 17346/2024 Signature Not Verified Page 1 of 4 Signed By:MEENU KALRA Signing Date:12.02.2025 18:26:48 various monetary reliefs at par with regularly appointed staff nurses in RML Hospital. 3. The Tribunal has, by the impugned order, allowed the petitioner’s claim to the extent of the basic pay and DA4, i.e., the minimum pay scale. Qua other entitlements, the entitlement of the petitioners has been deferred, dependent on the outcome of SLP (C) 46635/20195, pending before the Supreme Court. 4. The Tribunal has passed the aforesaid order on the basis of an order passed by this Court on 15 July 2019 in WP (C) 12632/2018. That writ petition was with respect to a similar claim by contract nurses who were serving in hospitals under the RML Hospital from 2009. They, too, claimed parity of pay and allowances with regular nurses. 5. The Tribu