EX CT/GD AJIT SINGH vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on : 19 March 2025 Pronounced on : 6 October 2025 + W.P.(C) 12101/2021 EX CT/GD AJIT SINGH .....Petitioner Through: Mr. A.K. Trivedi and Mr. Dhruv Kothari, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Bhagvan Swarup Shukla, CGSC with Mr. Sarvan Kumar, Mr. Satyam Singh and Ms. Priya Dwivedi, Advs. for UOI, Mr. Sourabh Bhushan, Legal Officer, RAF CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL % JUDGMENT 06.10.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. The entitlement, of the petitioner, to compassionate allowance in terms of Rule 411 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 19722 , is in question. 1 41. Compassionate allowance. – (1) A Government servant who is dismissed or removed from service shall forfeit his pension and gratuity: Provided that the authority competent to dismiss or remove him from service may, if the case is deserving of special consideration, sanction a compassionate allowance not exceeding two-thirds of pension or gratuity or both which would have been admissible to him if he had retired on superannuation pension. (2) The competent authority shall, either on its own or after taking into consideration the representation of the Government servant, if any, examine whether any compassionate allowance is Signature Not Verified to be granted and take a decision in this regard in accordance with the proviso to sub-rule (1) not W.P.(C) 12101/2021 Digitally Signed By:AJIT Page 1 of 16 KUMAR Signing Date:06.10.2025 11:25:33 Facts 2. While he was serving as Sepoy in the CRPF3, the petitioner was issued a Memorandum on 7 November 2007, proposing to initiate departmental proceedings against him on the ground of having remained unauthorisedly absent from duty from 5:45