DHARMENDRA KUMAR (DECEASED) THR. HIS LEGAL HEIRS vs THE UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

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$~6 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 16.10.2025 + W.P.(C) 11958/2019 DHARMENDRA KUMAR (DECEASED) THR. HIS LEGAL HEIRS .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Ravi Prakash Gupta, Adv. versus THE UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Gigi C George and Mr. Sunil Kumar, Advs. for UOI. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the Order dated 31.07.2009 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No. 842 of 2009, titled Lala Ram & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors., dismissing the said O.A. filed by the petitioner herein. Also Impugned is an Order dated 05.03.2013 passed by the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCA) UP (West) Region, Kanpur publishing a list of employees, excluding the petitioner, regularized. 2. The petitioner, along with four others, including Mr. Lala Ram and Mr. Kanhaiya Lal, had filed the above mentioned O.A., claiming regularization as Group-D employees. They challenged the Order dated 30.01.2009 passed by the respondents, whereby 88 causal workers were Signature Not Verified Signed By:RENUKA W.P.(C) 11958/2019 Page 1 of 6 NEGI Signing Date:17.10.2025 20:51:49 regularized by the respondents, however, the petitioner had not been considered for the same. The learned Tribunal vide its Impugned Order had dismissed the OA. 3. It is pertinent to note here that though the petitioner herein did not challenge the said Order passed by the learned Tribunal, Mr. Lala Ram and Mr. Kanhaiya Lal challenged the same before this Court by way of a Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, being W.P.(C) 13013/2009, titled Lala Ram