JUDGMENT

CM APPL. 12733/2021 (for exemption)

1. Allowed, subject to just exceptions and as per the extant rules.

2. The application is disposed of.

W.P.(C) 4187/2021

3. The petition impugns the order dated 4th January, 2021 of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Principal Bench, New Delhi, of dismissal of OA No. 2214/2020 preferred by the petitioner, an Inspector in the respondents Delhi Police, against the punishment of censure meted out to him in disciplinary proceedings and confirmed in the departmental appeal preferred by the petitioner.

4. The said disciplinary proceedings against the petitioner and two others were initiated in pursuance to certain observations in an order in a Habeas Corpus petition preferred in this Court. This Court, while disposing of the Habeas Corpus petition observed that there was lack of diligence on the part of officials concerned.

5. It is the case of the petitioner, that he was not even the Station House Officer (SHO) of the concerned Police Station when the complaint of missing person/elopement, subject matter of the Habeas Corpus petition, was lodged and joined the said Police Station as an SHO subsequently and thus the disciplinary proceedings aga