ORDER :

B. Veerappa, J.

The Director and Disciplinary Authority, National Institute of Unani Medicine and two others have filed the present writ petition against the Order dated 03.07.2017 made in Original Application No.170/00321/2017 on the file of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Bengaluru Bench, allowing the Application to the extent that the applicant cannot engage lawyer, but at the same time, she can engage any Government Servant retired or in situ of any department of her choice, as defense assistant.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their ranking before the Central Administrative Tribunal.

3. The respondent/applicant filed O.A.No.170/00321/2017 seeking to quash the Orders dated 28.02.2017 and 02.05.2017 rejecting the request of the applicant to engage the services of a defense assistant who is not an employee of National Institute of Unani Medicine.

4. It is the case of the applicant that she was appointed as Lower Division Clerk/Cashier in the office of the National Institute of Unani Medicine on 18.01.2006 and was promoted as Upper Division Clerk/Store Keeper in the year 2015, after successfully completing the probationary period for two