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2026 Supreme(Online)(CAT) 583

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
Manish Garg, Member (J), Rajinder Kashyap, Member (A)
Arun Chauhan – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Rajesh Kumar Chauhan
For the Respondents: Varun Vats

Table of Content
1. applicant's contractual appointment, extensions, and retrospective disengagement. (Para 1 , 2)
2. illegal replacement of contractual employee by another contractual employee. (Para 4)
3. contractual terms limit engagement to five years per dopt guidelines. (Para 5)
4. framing issues on legality of disengagement and replacement. (Para 6 , 7)
5. retrospective termination violates natural justice. (Para 8)
6. prohibits replacing long-serving contractual employee. (Para 9)
7. dopt om inapplicable to open competitive contractual posts. (Para 10)
8. fresh advertisement confirms impermissible contractual replacement. (Para 11)
9. prior tribunal judgment applies despite distinctions. (Para 12 , 13 , 14)
10. quash termination; re-engage till regular incumbent joins. (Para 15 , 16 , 17)

O R D E R

Hon’ble Mr. Rajinder Kashyap, Member (A):

1.By filing the instant OA under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the applicant is seeking the following reliefs:-

"8.1 To quash and set aside order dated 20.5.2025 and to further direct the respondent to re-engaged the applicant as Assistant Director (Entomology) on contractual basis forthwith with all consequential benefits.

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