ORDER

By Hon'ble Manish Garg, Member (J)

1. As facts and question of law are identical, with the consent of all parties, these OAs/CP/MAs were taken up for hearing together. We, therefore, proceed to dispose them off through this common order.

2. The issue in all these OAs pertains to inter-se seniority of various categories of inspectors working in CGST and the Customs, Delhi Zone. The first group belong to inspectors, who joined Delhi Zone on their request by seeking Inter- Commissionerate Transfer (ICT) from other zone. In short, this group can be termed as ICT group. The second group is the inspectors borne in Delhi Zone and are promotes. The third group is the directly recruited inspectors in the Delhi Zone.

2.1 In respect of the ICTs of O.A. No.1037 of 2023, it is asserted that they were applicants in O.A. No.2955 of 2019 which attained finality upto the level of Hon’ble Supreme Court, yet the applicants herein, who are governed by the judgment of this Tribunal as well as the Hon’ble High Court, have not been placed in the seniority list dated 07.10.2022. In respect of the said applicants, the Hon’ble High Court in WPC No.11170 of 2021, when approached by agitating the closure of