2024 Supreme(Online)(CAT) 11830

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
Lata Baswaraj Patne, Judicial Member, Shalini Misra, Administrative Member
Munaga Paka Nagaraju – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
O.A./428/2016

Original application dismissed as infructuous upon applicants' permitted participation and failure in written examination, rendering the matter moot.

Headnote:(A) Administrative Tribunal Proceedings - Writ Petition/OA - Dismissal as infructuous - Applicants permitted to participate in written examination by department - Failure in examination renders original application moot. (Para 2)

Facts of the case:
Multiple applicants challenged certain departmental action but were allowed by the department to participate in the written examination. Having failed the examination, they submitted that the original application has become infructuous.

Findings of Court:
The OA is dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs.

Issues: Whether the original application remains live after applicants' participation and failure in the written examination.

Ratio Decidendi: When relief sought is rendered academic due to subsequent events like participation and failure in examination, the proceedings become infructuous and warrant dismissal.

Result: OA dismissed as infructuous.