SAURABH KUMAR @ SAGAR vs UNION OF INDIA

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$~109 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 17th July, 2025 + FAO 183/2025, CM APPL. 42040/2025 & CM APPL. 42041/2025 SAURABH KUMAR @ SAGAR .....Appellant Through: Mr. Rajan Sood, Advocate. versus UNION OF INDIA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Piyush Beriwal and Mr. Vedansh Anand, Advocates for UOI. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. The present appeal has been filed under Section 23 of Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 seeking enhancement of the claim. 2. The claim application, filed by the appellant under Section 16 of Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987, was seeking compensation of Rs.8 lacs, along with interest. 3. However, learned Tribunal, after considering the injuries suffered by the appellant, restricted the compensation to Rs.1 lac only. 4. Learned counsel for respondent/Union of India appears on advance notice and submits that in the memorandum of parties, Union of India has not been properly described. 5. He submits that when the claim was filed before the learned Tribunal, it was against ‘Union of India through General Manager, North Central Railways, Allahabad‟ whereas in the memo of parties of the present appeal Union of India has been shown as „Union of India through General Manager, Northern Railway, Delhi‟. 6. Mr. Rajan Sood, learned counsel for the appellant submits that it was on account of some inadvertence and undertakes to file amended memo of Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed FAO 183/2025 1 By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:19.07.2025 12:36:52 parties. 7. Let it be done. 8. Fact, however, remains that learned counsel for Union of India is ready with the arguments. 9. There is delay of 240 days in lodging the present appeal. 10. Keeping in mind the fact that the Act in question is a welfare legis