RAJENDRA PRASAD YADAV vs UNION OF INDIA & ANR.

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$~17 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 25.07.2025 + W.P.(C) 10778/2025 RAJENDRA PRASAD YADAV .....Petitioner Through: Mr.G.L. Yadav, Mr.Pawan K. Yadav, Mr.Kushagra K. Yadav, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Kavinder Kumar Gill, SPC CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 44548/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 10778/2025 2. This writ petition has been filed challenging the Order dated 04.07.2025 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the, ‘Tribunal’), Principal Bench, New Delhi, in O.A. No.4674/2024, titled Rajendra Prasad Yadav v. Union of India & Anr., whereby the learned Tribunal dismissed the O.A. filed by the petitioner herein. 3. The petitioner had filed the said O.A. challenging the Order dated 04.11.2024, whereby his representation seeking promotion to the post of Executive Engineer (Electrical) was rejected by the Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed WP(C) 10778/2025 Page 1 of 6 By:REYMON VASHIST Signing Date:28.07.2025 20:33:50 20:31:32 respondents. 4. To give a brief background of the facts giving rise to the present petition, the petitioner joined the Public Works Department (PWD), Electrical Division-IV as a Junior Engineer (Electrical) on 13.05.1991. He was promoted to the post of Assistant Engineer (Electrical) on an ad-hoc basis on 25.02.2013 and joined the said office at the Srinagar Central Electric Division of CPWD, Jammu on 26.08.2013. He appeared in the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination (LDCE) for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer (Electrical) conducted in the year 2015. The result was declared by the respondents in April 2017, an