UNION OF INDIA & ORS. vs CHATUR SINGH & ORS.

$~20 & 21 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 24.09.2025 (20)+ W.P.(C) 13562/2024 & CM APPL. 56701/2024, CM APPL. 76570/2024 (21)+ W.P.(C) 16940/2024 & CM APPL. 71759/2024 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr.Ajit Kumar Pathak, SPC with Ms.Akriti Pathak, Adv. in W.P.(C) 13562/2024 Mr.Jitesh Vikram Srivastava, SPC with Mr.Prajesh Vikram Srivastava, Adv. in W.P.(C) 16940/2024 versus CHATUR SINGH & ORS. .....Respondents MS. ANJALI NEGI & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr.A.K. Trivedi, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. These petitions have been filed, challenging the Orders dated 06.12.2023 and 19.01.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as, ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No.387/2019, titled Chatur Singh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.; and O.A. No.3465/2019, titled Ms.Anjali Negi & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors., respectively, allowing the O.A.s filed by the respondents herein. 2. For the sake of brevity, we shall take the facts from W.P.(C) 13562/2024. 3. To give a brief background of the facts in which the present pe