JUDGMENT :

RAJIV SHAKDHER, J.

Table of Contents

Preface:- .................................................................................................................. 1

Background:-....................................................................................................................... 2

Submissions on behalf of the petitioners:- .......................................................................... 7

Submissions on behalf of the respondent:- ....................................................................... 10

Analysis and reasons:- ...................................................................................................... 11

Conclusion:- ................................................................................................. 22

Preface:-

1. This writ petition is directed against the judgment dated 13.10.2020, read with the order dated 21.01.2021, passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal [in short, the “Tribunal”] in O.A. No.1119/2019 and M.A. No.46/2021.

1.1. Via the impugned judgment, the Tribunal has allowed the original applicatio