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RESERVED ON 18.12.2025.

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL, ALLAHABAD BENCH

ALLAHABAD

This is the 22^nd day of December, 2025.

ORIGINAL APPLICATION NO. 330/01117/2019

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE OM PRAKASH -VII, MEMBER (J)

HON’BLE MR. MOHAN PYARE, MEMBER (A)

Rakesh Kumar Meena S/o Shri Shyam Lal Meena, aged about 29

years, R/o Village Post Talawada, Tehsil Gangapurcity, District

Sawaimadhopur.

……….Applicant

VERSUS

1. Union of India through the Chairman, Ministry of Railway

(Railway Board) Rail Bhavan, New Delhi.

2. Chairman, Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) OPP NCR

Headquarters Near Railway Hospital Subedarganj, Allahabad

211011 (UP)

……………..Respondents

Advocate for the Applicant: Shri R.K. Dixit

Advocate for the Respondents Shri K.K. Ojha

O R D E R

BY HON’BLE MR JUSTICE OM PRAKASH -VII, MEMBER (J)

The present Original Application has been filed by the applicant

under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 for the

following reliefs:-

“(i) To issue a writ order or direction in nature of certiorari,

quashing the impugned order 10.2.2014 passed by respondent

No.2 cancelling the candidature & debarring the petitioner

from all RRB examination for Life Time (Annexure No.1 to

compilation No. 1 of this petition).

(ii) To issue a writ order or direction in nature of mandamus

directing the respondent No.2 to issue offer of appointment in

favour of petitioner on the post of Technicians Grade – III

(Electric/TL Fitter) TRS, Category -4 against CEN No. 9/2010.

(iii) To grant such other and favourable relief (s) which this

Hon’ble Tribunal/Court may deem fit and proper in the facts

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and circumstances of the case.

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(iv) Award the cost of the petition in favour of the petitioner”.

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2. The brief facts of the case are that the respondents issued an

advertisement for recruitment to the post of Technician Grade-III

Electric/TL Fitter/TRS-CAT-04 against CEN No. 9/2010. The

applicant applied for the said post and appeared in the written

examination conducted on 30.01.2011. The applicant successfully

cleared the written examination and was thereafter called for

document verification, which he attended on 03.03.2012.

Subsequently, the applicant was served with a show cause notice

dated 28.10.2013 by Respondent No. 2, alleging that, as per the report

of the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, the

handwriting on the application form and that on the answer

sheets/psycho sheets/verification sheets appeared to be of different

persons. The applicant submitted his reply to the said show cause

notice. However, Respondent No. 2, vide Memorandum dated

10.02.2014, arbitrarily cancelled the candidature of the applicant and

further imposed a lifetime debarment from appearing in all RRC/RRB

examinations. Aggrieved by the said order, the applicant has filed the

present Original Application.

3. We have heard Sri R.K Dixit, learned counsel for the applicant

and Sri K.K. Ojha, learned counsel for the respondents and perused

the record.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant argued that the respondents

did not provide a fair and reasonable opportunity to the applicant

before imposing the severe penalty of lifetime debarment. No proper

inquiry was conducted before issuing the order of cancellation and

debarment. Learned counsel for the applicant further submitted that

the impugned order dated 10.02.2014 is arbitrary, unreasonable, and

without any valid basis. The applicant had successfully cleared all

stages of the selection process, including the written examination,

document verification, and PET, and therefore cancellation of his

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SRIVASTAVA candidature is wholly unjustified. It is also argued that the conclusion

drawn in the impugned order is based only on the opinion of one

Government handwriting expert. No attempt was made by the

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respondents to obtain a second independent opinion from another

Government laboratory. It is also argued that applicant’s candidature

cannot be cancelled solely on the basis of expert opinion as it is not

supported/corroborated by any other