RAHUL KUMAR vs NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL & ORS.

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$~69 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 10.09.2025 + W.P.(C) 14008/2024 RAHUL KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Ankit Singh Sinsinwar & Mr.Ravi Kumar, Advs. versus NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.Vaibhav Agnihotri, ASC/NDMC with Mr.Vidit Pratap Singh, Mr.Ankit Singh & Ms.Suruchi Khandelwal, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed, challenging the Order dated 12.09.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’) in C.P. No. 656/2024 in O.A. No. 2679/2024, titled Rahul Kumar v. Sh. Naresh Kumar & Ors., dismissing the Contempt Petition filed by the petitioner herein, while reserving liberty to the petitioner to challenge the subsequent order dated 09.08.2024, on all the grounds including that have been taken by the petitioner in O.A. No. 2679/2024. 2. To give a brief background of the facts in which the present petition arises, the petitioner was appointed as a Casual Labour Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 14008/2024 Page 1 of 4 By:REYMON VASHIST Signing Date:12.09.2025 16:39:52 (Temporary Muster Roll) in the Horticulture Department of the respondents on 26.11.2009. He worked on the same with intermittent breaks and, on 04.05.2023, was appointed as Palika Sahayak (Udhyan) by the respondents. The terms of his appointment, inter alia, were that the petitioner shall work on the said post for a two-year probation period. Alleging certain misconduct by the petitioner, the respondents served a notice of termination, vide order dated 14.06.2024, on the petitioner under Rule 5(1)(a) of the CCS (Temporary Service) Rules, 1965. Aggrieved