CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL PRINCIPAL BENCH, NEW DELHI O.A. No. 4424/2018 With OA No. 1522/2024 Reserved on : 10.12.2025 Pronounced on : 18.12.2025 Hon’ble Mrs. Harvinder Kaur Oberoi, Member (J)

Hon’ble Dr. Sumeet Jerath, Member (A)

I. O.A. No. 4424/2018 (1) Shri K V Gopala Rao (Aged 60 Years)

Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Shri K Subrahmanyam, R/o 803, M.S. Block, North West Moti Bagh, New Delhi (2) Shri Som Pal Singh (Aged 60 years), Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Late Shri Sukh Ram Singh R/o B-92, Pocket -I, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-82, NOIDA (U.P.)

(3) Shri R.K. Meena, (Aged 61 years) Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Shri G.L. Meena, R/o 561, Sector-8, R.K. Puram, New Delhi (4) Shri M. P. Sajeevan, (Aged 60 Years), Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Shri C. Balakrishnan, R/o A-38, Pandara Road, New Delhi-110003 (5) Shri T. Thiagarajan, (Aged 60 years), Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Late Shri K. Thirisangu, R/o 607, Laxmi Bai Nagar, New Delhi-110023 (6) Shri Mangal Marandi(aged 60 years), Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Shri Pratap Marandi, R/o 83, Pocket-12, Sector-22, Rohini, Delhi-110086 (7) Shri Pratap Singh Verma, (Aged 61 Years), Group A Director (Retd), S/o Shri Beli Ram Verma, R/o 202 B, 4 B Block, DDA HIG Flats, Motia Khan, Delhi-110055 (8) Shri Ajai Kumar Nigam, (Aged 61 years) Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Late Shri P.N. Nigam, R/o 527, Modern Apartment, Sector 15, Rohini, Delhi-110089 (9) Shri M.S. Kalania, (aged 61 years) Group A Director (Retd), S/o Late Shri Sheo Karan, R/o Flat No. 191, Pocket 7, Sector 12, Dwarka, Delhi-110045 (10) Shri Babu Lal Meena, (60 years) Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Late Shri Parsadi Lal Meena, R/o N-488, Sector-9, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110022 (11) Shri Laxmi Narayan, (60 Years) Group A Director (Retd)

S/o Late Shri Chander Singh, R/o 422, Laxmi Bai Nagar, New Delhi ….Applicants (By Advocate : Mr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava)

Vs.

Union of India Through the Secretary, D/o Personnel & Training, North Block New Delhi ….Respondent (By Advocate : Mr. Ashok Kumar and Mr. Thakur Virender Pratap Singh with Ms. Nandita Sharma for UOI)

Shri Manik Mandal (65 years)

(Retired Deputy Secretary)

S/o. Shri Chand Mohan Mandal, R/o. 13-A, Pocket2, Mix Housing Complex, New Kondli, Mayur Vihar, Phase-III, Delhi-110096. ….Applicant (By Advocate : Mr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava)

Vs.

Union of India Through the Secretary, D/o Personnel & Training, North Block New Delhi ….Respondent (By Advocate : Ms. Nandita Sharma for Mr. Thakur Virender Pratap Singh)

ORDER Hon'ble Dr. Sumeet Jerath, Member (A):

Since both these OA Nos. 4424/2018 and 1522/2024 have a common question for adjudication hence both of them are decided by a common order. Facts of OA No. 4424/2018 being the leading case, are discussed below for better adjudication. The instant OA has been filed by the applicants under section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 seeking the following reliefs:-

"a) to give promotion/notional promotion along with all consequential benefits of pay fixation, arrears of pay and allowance, to the applicants from 1st July, 2017.

b) to re-fix their pensionary benefits with arrears.

c) provide exemplary compensation may be imposed upon the Respondent for mental agony suffered by the Applicants d) Any other order, as may be deemed fit by the Hon'ble Tribunal.”

2. The factual matrix of the case as per the counsel of the applicants is that the applicants were appointed as Deputy Secretary in the selection grade of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) on regular basis in the year 2012 vide DoPT OM dated 06.06.2016. Later, in the year 2017 DoPT found the applicants eligible to the included in the list of Director and consequently circulated their names to the Ministries/Departments for obtaining vigilance status. According to the counsel the respondents ought to have prepared and published the select list on or before 1^st July of the respective recruitment year. However, the respondents failed to prepare the Director’s Select List in time and this could be published only on 27.09.