ORDER

Per: - Rajinder Singh Dogra, Judicial Member

1. The applicant has filed the present Original Application under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 seeking the following reliefs: -

a) “allow the instant Original Application;

b. quash the impugned order No. 160 bearing reference No. HSS/R/220(B) dated 24.07.2024 through the medium of which sanction was accorded for grant of child care leave to the applicant w.e.f. 22.07.2024 to 04.09.2024 instead of grant of maternity leave to the applicant, which the applicant applied for before the respondent no. 3;

c. direct the respondent no. 3 to grant maternity leave to the applicant for a period of 180 days w.e.f. 22.07.2024 to 17.01.2025;

d. direct the respondents to convert the child care leave illegally sanctioned in favour of the applicant vide office order No. 160, bearing reference no. HSS/R/220 (B) dated 24.07.2024;

e. restrain the respondents from treating the period for which the applicant was on leave i..e period from 22.07.2024 as child care leave or any other leave except maternity leave;

f. ANY other order or direction which this Hon'ble Court may deem fit or proper in the facts and circumstances of the case;

2. The