SANDEEP KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 09.09.2025 Pronounced on: 10.10.2025 W.P.(C) 7006/2020 & CM APPL. 23906/2020 SH. SANDEEP KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Aarush Bhatia and Mr. Shubhankar Sengupta, Advs versus UNION OF INDIA .....Respondent Through: Ms. Radhika Bishwajit Dubey, CGSC with Ms. Gurleen Kaur Waraich and Mr. Kritarth Upadhyay, Advs CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN JUDGMENT MADHU JAIN, J. 1. This petition has been filed challenging the Order dated 20.02.2020 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. 490/2020, titled Sh. Sandeep Kumar v. The Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law & Justice, (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Impugned Order’), dismissing the O.A. filed by the W.P.(C) 7006/2020 2. The case of the petitioner is that the petitioner’s father was a permanent Group ‘D’ employee with the respondent organisation, Department of Law and Justice and served as a Peon until his demise on 23.02.2005. He was the sole earning member of the family, and upon his father’s death, the petitioner’s mother submit