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2026 Supreme(Online)(CAT) 1274

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
M.G. Sewlikar, J, Shri Krishna, Administrative Member
Rashmi Arvind Kator – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Sai Kumar Ramamurthy
For the Respondents: N.K. Rajpurohit

Table of Content
1. applicant's service history and retiral benefits withholding. (Para 1 , 2)
2. respondents' basis for caste certificate scrutiny and suspension. (Para 3)
3. applicant's challenge to maharashtra act applicability and limitation. (Para 4 , 7 , 8)
4. maharashtra act 2000 applies to central government employees. (Para 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14)
5. departmental inquiry not time-barred by rule 9 ccs pension rules. (Para 15 , 16 , 17 , 20 , 21)
6. invalid caste certificate renders appointment void ab initio. (Para 18 , 19 , 26)
7. ccs pension rules 2021 govern pre-2003 appointees; oa dismissed. (Para 22 , 23 , 24 , 27 , 28 , 29)

ORDER

Per: Justice M.G. Sewlikar, Member (J)

By this application under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, applicant is assailing Charge Memorandum dated 26th December, 2023 and direction to the respondents to release her retiral benefits.

2. Facts in nutshell are that the applicant was appointed as Inspector in the Department of Central Excise on 13th September, 1988. At the time of joining the department, she had furnished a caste certificate issued by the Additional Chief Metropolitan, Magistrate, Dadar, Mumbai, in which it is stated that she be

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