SH VED PRAKASH ANAND vs DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY & ORS.

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$~24 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 15.05.2025 + W.P.(C) 6001/2020 & CM APPL. 21672/2020 SH VED PRAKASH ANAND .....Petitioner Through: Mr.G. L. Verma and Mr.Anuj Verma, Advs. versus DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Vaibhav Agnihotri, ASC for DDA with Mr.Ankit Singh and Mr.Vidit Pratap Singh, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RENU BHATNAGAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the Order dated 10.01.2020 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as, ‘learned Tribunal’) in OA No. 866/2017, titled Shri Ved Prakash Anand v. DDA & Ors., dismissing the said OA filed by the petitioner herein. 2. As a brief background of facts in which the present petition arises, the petitioner was appointed as a Lower Division Clerk with the respondents in October 1969. He was promoted to the post of Upper Division Clerk, thereafter to the post of Assistant Accounts Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 6001/2020 Page 1 of 11 By:RENUKA NEGI Signing Date:19.05.2025 20:44:15 Officer, and later to the post of Accounts Officer. 3. In 1997-98, while working as an Accounts Officer (SFS-II), there was an allegation of some fraud having been committed in issuing possession letters of certain flats. The petitioner was placed under suspension on 09.01.1998. RC No.l(A)/1998, PS:CBI/ACU- VIII/ND was also registered, inter alia, against the petitioner under Sections 120B, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 477A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short, ‘IPC’) and Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (in short, ‘PC Act’). A charge sheet in the same was filed on