CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL PRINCIPAL BENCH, NEW DELHI O.A. No. 378/2025 M.A. No. 1586/2025 This the 16th Day of May, 2025 Hon’ble Mr. B. Anand, Member (A)

Hon’ble Mr. Ajay Pratap Singh, Member (J)

1. Govind Kumar Singh S/o Late Jvala Singh aged about 45 years R/o F-37, Type IV-IA & AD Residential Complex Kaulagarh, Dehradun-248195.

Working as Assistant Audit Officers.

2. Manoj Kumar S/o Late Ayodhya Prasad Jaiswal Aged about 46 Years R/o F-39, Type IV-IA & AD Residential Complex Kaulagarh, Dehradun-248195.

Working as Assistant Audit Officers.

3. Anuj Kumar S/o Late Ram Singh Aged about 47 Years R/o I-63, Type IV- IA & AD Residential Complex Kaulagarh, Dehradun-248195.

Working as Assistant Audit Officers.

…Applicants (By Advocate: Mr. Nishant Kumar)

Versus

1. Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)

Pocket-9, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, New Delhi-110124.

2. Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

3. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Through its chairman Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi – 110069.

4. Sanjccv Kumar Pandey

0/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

5. Alka Saxena O/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

6. Vineet Nigam O/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

7. Ramesh Kumar Keshari O/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195

8. Rajesh Kumar Sinha

0/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

9. Arvind Kumar Sharma

0/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

10. Amit Tandon

0/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

11. Ajay Tyagi

0/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

12. Lakhpat Singh Lingwal

0/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalckhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Dcharadun, Uttarakhand-248195.

13. Vinay Mohan

0/o Accountant General (Audit-2) Uttar Pradesh Audit Bhawan TC-35-V-1 Vibhuti khand, GomtiNagar, Lucknow-226010.

14. Savita Pal Presently on deputation O/o Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)

Pocket-9, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, New Delhi-110124.

15. Santosh Kumar Gupta

0/o Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand Mahalekhakar Bhawan, Kaulagarh, Deharadun, Uttarakhand –

248195.

16. Arvind Kumar Mishra

0/o Accountant General (Audit-2) Uttar Pradesh Audit Bhawan TC-35-V-1 Vibhuti khand, GomtiNagar, Lucknow-226010.

Respondents (By Advocates: Dr. Surender Singh Hooda with Mr. Shubham for R-1 & 2 and Mr. Kanishk Rana for R-3 (UPSC)

ORDER (ORAL)

Hon’ble Mr. B. Anand, Member (A)

Learned counsel for the respondents drew the attention to the relief(s) sought for by the applicant in the present OA, which are as under:

“a. Direct the Respondents to set aside the gradation list dated 04.12.2024, annexed as Annexure A-1, on the ground that it has been prepared in violation of the principles governing seniority and promotion under the prevailing law. Further, direct the Respondent to revise the gradation list by placing the applicants in their rightful positions, ensuring that their seniority is calculated from the date of their respective joining, including the period spent on probation, for the purpose of determining their seniority and subsequent eligibility for promotions;

b. Direct the Respondent to prepare the gradation list in accordance with the prevailing law, ensuring that seniority for promotion is calculated from the date of joining and further direct that the period spent by the applicants on probation shall not be excluded while computing the length of their