ORDER

Per Hon’ble Mr. M.S. Latif, Member (Judl.)

The writ petition (SWP No.711 of 2019), having been filed initially before the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir in the year 2019, came to be transferred to the CAT, Jammu Bench vide order dated 04.08.2020 and accordingly numbered as T.A.6590/2020. Thereafter when CAT Srinagar Bench was commissioned, the matter was transferred to this Bench. The case was first listed before this Bench of CAT on 07.12.2021.

2. Through the medium of instant TA, the petitioner has sought the following reliefs:-

“(i) By issuance of writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, the impugned order dated 21/10/2016 passed by Respondent No.4 be quashed; and (ii) By issuance of a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, the Respondents be directed to take back the petitioner in service and to pay him all the service benefits including salary, increments and arrears of any pay due to him.

(iii) The Hon’ble court may pass any other order or direction which it may deem fit and proper under the facts and circumstances of the case.”

3. The facts, as stem out of the pleadings made in the petition, are that the petitioner wa