MANISH KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI LPA 170/2025, CM APPL. 13062/2025, CM APPL. 13063/2025 & CM APPL. 13064/2025 MANISH KUMAR .....Appellant Through: Mr. Moni Chinmoy, Mr. Rahul Ranjan Verma and Mr. Abhishek, Advocates. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. V.S.R. Krishna, Advocate for DMRC. Mr. Ankur Chibber, Adv. for R-4. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 06.03.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. The appellant is working as an Additional General Manager (Legal) in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation1. 2. He instituted OA 1360/2021 before the Central Administrative Tribunal2, with the following prayer clause: “a. Pass an order directing the Respondents to grant applicant all the benefits which he is otherwise entitled to in terms of the order dated 23.02.2018 and as defacto HOD since 23.05.2017 with all consequential benefits in time a bound manner. 1 “DMRC”, hereinafter 2 “the Tribunal”, hereinafter 3. The Tribunal dismissed the OA by order dated 22 July 2021. The concluding paragraph of the said decision, which also stands reproduced in the impugned judgment of the learned Single Judge, read thus: “6. As r