GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS. vs SUNIL KUMAR AND ORS.

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$~24 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 02.05.2025 + W.P.(C) 5756/2025 GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr.Gaurav Dhingra, Adv versus SUNIL KUMAR AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.M.K. Bhardwaj, Adv CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RENU BHATNAGAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 26283/2025 (Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 5756/2025 & CM APPL. 26282/2025 2. This petition has been filed by the petitioners, challenging the Order dated 05.08.2024, passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (in short, „Tribunal‟) in O.A. No. 1454/20217, titled Sunil Kumar, Contractual Craft Instructor (B) & Ors. v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors., allowing the said O.A. filed by the respondents herein with a direction to the petitioners to release the payment of the respondents for the period between the termination of their services by the petitioners till their reinstatement, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the certified Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 5756/2025 Page 1 of 5 By:RENUKA NEGI Signing Date:07.05.2025 17:27:06 copy of the said order. 3. To give a brief background of the facts of the present case, the respondents were working on contract basis with the petitioners as Contractual Craft Instructors. As their services were terminated by the petitioners vide orders dated 31.07.2014 and being aggrieved by the same, the respondents filed an application before the learned Tribunal challenging the order of termination. The learned Tribunal, by its interim order dated 08.08.2014, stayed the operation of termination notices. The petitioners challenged the same by way of a Writ Petition, being WP(C