UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs DHARAMPAL SINGH AND ORS

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$~37 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 21.03.2025 + W.P.(C) 3553/2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Rohan Jaitley, CGSC with Mr. Dev Pratap Shahi, Mr. Varun Pratap Singh, Mr. Yogya Bhatia, Mr. Palash Maxumdar, MHA and Mr. Kulvinder Singh (US), Advs. versus DHARAMPAL SINGH AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. M.K. Bhardwaj, Ms. Priyanka Bhardwaj & Mr. Himanshu Bhardwaj, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE RENU BHATNAGAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 16591/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 3553/2025 & CM APPL. 16590/2025 2. This petition has been filed challenging the Order dated 30.07.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal (PB), New Delhi (‘learned Tribunal’) in C.P./706/2023 in O.A./2416/2016, titled Dharam Pal Singh v. Ajay Kumar Bhalla Secretary M/o Home Affairs, directing the petitioner to fully comply with the Order dated 03.08.2023 passed in the above O.A. and further observing that the Office Memorandum (OM) dated 25.07.2024 was Signature Not Verified Signed By:VIJAYA WP(C) 3553/2025 Page 1 of 5 LAKSHMI DOBHAL Signing Date:26.03.2025 13:02:37 not in conformity with the direction issued in the above Order. 3. The petitioner further challenges the Order dated 10.01.2025 passed in R.A. No. 126/2024 seeking review of the above Impugned Order, which also stands dismissed by the learned Tribunal. 4. A brief background of the facts is that the respondents had filed the above mentioned O.A. praying for grant of the Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACP) benefits. The same was allowed vide the Order dated 03.08.2023, with the following directions: “13. In view of the aforesaid facts and law, the O.A. deserves to be allowed. The same is