UNION OF INDIA AND ANR vs LAKSHMAN SINGH NEGI AND ORS

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$~22 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 24.09.2025 + W.P.(C) 13763/2025 & CM APPL. 56432-34/2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ANR .....Petitioners Through: Ms.Arunima Dwivedi, CGSC, Mr.Sainyam Bhardwaj, Adv. versus LAKSHMAN SINGH NEGI AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr.A.K.Trevedi, Adv. 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 21.08.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as, ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No.2355/2023, titled Lakshman Singh Negi & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr., allowing the said O.A. filed by the respondents herein with the following directions: “7. In view of the same the present OA is also allowed with the following directions:- 7.1 Those applicants, who have completed 10 years or more service, be extended the same benefit as has been extended by the respondents vide their Office Order No.A- 64/62/2022- Adm.II dated 17.05.2023 of Archaeological Survey of India. Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed WP(C) 13763/2025 Page 1 of 5 By:REYMON VASHIST Signing Date:27.09.2025 16:21:33 7.2 The aforementioned order be issued within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order.” 2. To give a brief background of the facts in which the present petition arises, the respondents were appointed as Monument Attendants albeit on a casual basis in the Archaeological Survey of India, and were granted temporary status as per the Office Memorandum dated 10.09.1993, and were subsequently regularised, with effect from 31.08.2015, to the post of Multi Tasking Staff (MTS). The dates of their initial engagement and the dates of their regularisation