# RAMCHANDER vs UNION OF INDIA & ANR

Court: Delhi High Court
Date: 2025-03-11
Citation: W.P.(C)-2839/2020 2025:DHC:1804
Petitioner: RAMCHANDER
Respondent: UNION OF INDIA & ANR

[Official PDF on Delhi High Court website](https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/showFileJudgment/JIS11032025CW28392020_192606.pdf)

## Judgment text (excerpt)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 11th March, 2025 W.P.(C) 2839/2020 RAMCHANDER .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Anil Goel, Mr. Aditya Goel and Mr. Chanchal Sharma, Advocates. versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr. Om Prakash, SPC with Mr. Chandresh Pratap and Ms. Swati Mishra, Advocates with Mr. Digvijay Singh, CMI/Legal. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE JYOTI SINGH JUDGEMENT JYOTI SINGH, J. (ORAL) 1. This writ petition is preferred on behalf of the Petitioner seeking a direction to the Respondents to refund an amount of Rs.5,54,079/- along with interest @ 18 per cent per annum from the date excess payment was made by the Petitioner to the Railways till realisation of the money, in light of judgment dated 28.08.2017 passed by this Court in OMP (COMM) 5/2015, titled ‘Ram Chander v. Union of India & Another’. 2. Factual matrix to the extent necessary is that Petitioner entered into a Lease Agreement on 09.06.2008 with the Railways for leasing parcel space in brake vans in Train No. 2280-R Ex. HNZM to JHS. The Lease Agreement was for a period of three years i.e. from 03.04.2008 to 02.04.2011 with a clause for extension of lease by a further period of 

https://niyam.ai/judgements/high-court/2025/march/ramchander-vs-union-of-india-anr