ARUN BHANSALI, VIKAS BUDHWAR
Amit Chaurasiya – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
VIKAS BUDHWAR, J.
1. Impugned in the present proceedings at the instance of Amit Chaurasiya and Shivam Singh are the orders of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Allahabad Bench, Allahabad (in short ‘Tribunal’) dated 10.08.2022 passed in O.A. No. 714 of 2022 (Amit Chaurasiya v. Union of India and Others) and O.A. No. 715 of 2022 (Shivam Singh v. Union of India and Others) whereby the prayer made for undertaking the exercise of document verification and medical test and upon being successful, grant of appointment order was denied and also the order dated 27.03.2023 passed in O.A. No. 982 of 2022 (Shivam Singh and Another v. Union of India and Others) wherein the challenge raised to the order dated 06.09.2022 was declined.
2. The case of the original applicants before the Tribunal was that a notification was published by the Railway Recruitment Boards, Centralised Employment Notice (CEN) No. 02 of 2018 inviting online applications from eligible candidates for recruitment on various posts in Level 1 to 7th CPC Pay Matrix in various units of Indian Railways. The original applicants claim to have applied under OBC category for Group ‘D’ post. Admit card is stated to have been
The principle of res judicata applies, preventing the applicants from re-litigating their claims after failing to challenge earlier Tribunal decisions.
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