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2019 Supreme(Online)(CAT) 2118

RESERVED CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ALLAHABAD BENCH ALLAHABAD Dated: This the 10th day of May 2019 HON’BLE MR. RAKESH SAGAR JAIN, MEMBER – J Misc. Review Application No. 61 of 2015 In Original Application No. 330/34/2012 Ram Nawal son of late Raj Bali, R/o Quarter No. 110-L, New Colony Rain Gaon, Subedarganj, District Allahabad.

………….. Applicant.

By Advocate : Shri R.K. Upadhyaya/Shri Saurabh Basu VERSUS

1. Union of India through General Manager, North Central Railway, Subedarganj, Allahabad.

2. Divisional Railway Manager, North Central Railway, Nawab Yusuf Road, Allahabad.

3. Divisional Railway Manager (Engg.) North Central Railway, Allahabad.

4. Finance Advisor & Account Officer (Adm) Account Officer Head Quarter, North Central Railway, Subedarganj, Allahabad.

5. Assistant Divisional Engineer, Head Quarter, North Central Railway, Kanpur. .......Respondents.

By Advocate: Shri Ajay Kumar Rai

O R D E R

1. This order disposes of the Review Application filed by the respondents seeking review of the order dated 12.10.2015 whereby O.A. No. 34/2012 titled Ram Naval v/s Union of India and others was disallowed.

2. In the O.A., it was held that the applicant was an unauthorized occupant of the railway quarter and railway is entitled to recover penal/damage rent for unauthorized occupation of the quarter from the applicant under rules.

3. The applicant seeks review of the order on the grounds:

1) Tribunal did not appreciate the law while deciding the O.A.;

2) Tribunal had held about the unauthorized occupancy of the applicant in the railway quarter which he had possessed at Kanpur;

3) Tribunal failed to examine the prayer for which the O.A.

was filed;

4) Applicant had filed the O.A. regarding excess of recovery being made and the rate by which the recovery had been made was also excess;

5) Tribunal overlooked the issue of impugned order dated

17.01.2011

4. I have considered the averments of the review application and gone through the material on record to see whether a case for review of the order is made out or not.

5. It is settled law that review jurisdiction is available only on the grounds prescribed under Order XLVII Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which contains only three grounds –

(i) mistake or error apparent on the face of record;

(ii) discovery of new and important matter or evidence, which, even after exercise of due diligence, was not within the knowledge of the review petitioner or could not be produced by him at the time when the order sought to be reviewed was passed; and (iii) for any other sufficient reason.

6. The law governing the scope of review has been very succinctly laid down by the Hon’ble Court in:

I. Ajit Kumar Rath v. State of Orissa and others, (1999) 9 SCC 596, a review cannot be claimed or asked for merely for a fresh hearing, or arguments, or correction of an erroneous view taken earlier. That is to say, the power of review can be exercised only for correction of a patent error of law or fact which stares in the face without any elaborate argument being needed for establishing it. Any other attempt, except an attempt to correct an apparent error, or an attempt not based on any ground set out in Order 47 of the Code of Civil Procedure, would amount to an abuse of the liberty given to the Tribunal under the Act to review its judgment.

II. Union of India v. Tarit Ranjan Das, 2004 SCC (L&S)

160, the scope for review is rather limited, and it is not permissible for the forum hearing the review application to act as an appellate court in respect of the original order, by a fresh order and rehearing the matter to facilitate a change of opinion on merits.

III. Inder Chand Jain(Dead) Through Lrs, Vs.Motilal (Dead) Through Lrs. Reported in (2009) 14 SCC 663, It is beyond any doubt or dispute that the review court does not sit in appeal over its own order. A rehearing of the matter is impermissible in law or pronounced, it should not be altered. It is also trite that exercise of inherent jurisdiction is not invoked for reviewing any order.

IV. Review is not appeal in disguised in Lily Thomas Vs.

Union of India. The power of review can be exercised for correction of a mistake but not to substitute a view. Such powers can be exercised within the limits of the statute dealing with the exercise of power. The review cannot be treated like an appeal in disguise.”

7. Keeping in mind the principles laid down by the Hon’ble Apex Court in the above decisions, I have considered the claim of the review petitioner to find out whether a case has been made out by applicant for review of the order dated 12.10.2015 whereby O.A. No. 34 of 2012 titled Ram Nawal v/s Union of India and others was disposed of.

8. I have gone through the records of OA No. 34/2012 and of the present R.A. It has been averred in application by the applicants-respondents that the Tribunal has failed to appreciate the materials available on record, judgments

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