UNION OF INDIA & ORS. vs BRIJESH SINGH THROUGH LRS SH VISHAL SAXENA

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 02.09.2025 Pronounced on: 19.09.2025 W.P.(C) 11226/2025 & CM APPL.46173/2025 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Satya Ranjan Swain, SPC, Mr. Kautilya Birat, Mr. Prem Prakash Sharma & Ms. Shashi Bala, Advs. versus BRIJESH SINGH THROUGH LRS SH VISHAL SAXENA .....Respondent Through: Nemo 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 28.08.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No. 3690/2018, titled Brijesh Singh through LRs. v. Union of India & Ors., whereby the learned Tribunal allowed the O.A. filed by the respondent herein and quashed the Orders dated 09.07.2013, 16.07.2013, and 07.07.2018 by which the petitioners had sought to recover an amount of Rs. 14,71,995/- from the respondent on account 2. The respondent was appointed as a Permanent Way Inspector (PWI), Grade-III, in the year 1980, and was subsequently promoted to the post of Senior Section Engineer in the year 1997. In 2003, he was again promoted