EX CPO JITENDRA SINGH vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

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$~29 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 10.01.2025 + W.P.(C) 216/2025 EX CPO JITENDRA SINGH .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Prashant Vaxish and Mr.Yash Chavan, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Syed Abdul Haseeb, CGSC CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAVINDER DUDEJA NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 981/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 216/2025 & CM APPL. 980/2025 2. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the Order dated 10.12.2024 passed by the learned Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘learned AFT'), in MA 5314/2024 in OA No. 1375/2023 titled Ex CPO Jitendra Singh v. Union of India & Ors., whereby the learned AFT dismissed the application filed by the petitioner seeking an early hearing of the Original Application (OA) filed by him, observing that no case for hearing the same out of turn is made out. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been terminated from service pursuant to a farcical Summary Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 216/2025 Page 1 of 3 By:SUNIL Signing Date:14.01.2025 20:04:26 Trial, wherein the confession of the petitioner was taken by force. He submits that the petitioner has challenged the same in form of the above-mentioned OA, however, the learned AFT has not considered the same expeditiously, thereby causing prejudice to the petitioner. 4. He further submits that, pursuant to our Order dated 20.11.2024 passed in WP(C) 16068/2024, the petitioner had filed the above application before the learned AFT for seeking an expedited hearing of the OA, including the Interim relief prayed therein, however, the learned Tribunal has