ORDER

The applicant is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 1992 Batch, Maharashtra Cadre. He was on a foreign assignment to the United Nations - FAO between 1.12.2016 and 31.12.2019. Initially the assignment was for a period of two years and was extended from time to time until 31.12.2019. During the interregnum, the applicant applied for VRS (Voluntary Retirement Scheme) on 23.12.2019 under Rule 16(2) of the All India services (AIS) (Death Cum Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958. He sought waiver of the three months notice period as per Rule 16(2) of AIS (DCRB) Rules, 1958. The VRS application was accepted by the competent authority, that is, the State Government of Maharashtra on 30.12.2019 and from the very next day, that is, 31.12.2019 the applicant stood relieved. On 01.01.2020, the Government of Maharashtra sought relevant papers from the applicant to process his retiral dues (Page 106). The applicant submitted the desired documents immediately between 1-2/01/2020. Later, by an order dated 01.02.2020, upon the intervention of DoPT, the Government of Maharashtra withdrew the approval for the VRS of the applicant (Page 51). Nevertheless, since the applicant preced