(Reserved on 10.11.2025)

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL JABALPUR BENCH (Circuit Sitting at Bilaspur)

Jabalpur, this the 09th day of December, 2025 HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AKHIL KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, JUDICIAL MEMBER HON’BLE MRS. MALLIKA ARYA, ADMINISTRATIVE MEMBER Original Application No. 485 of 2020 Rakesh Prasad Meena, S/o Shri Manga Lal Meena, Aged about 37 years, Substitute Telephone Attendant and Dak Khalasi (TADK) under Shri Navneet Raj, Dy. CSO, South Eastern Central Railway, District – Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)-495004, resident of village – Reta, Post – Dubbi, Tehsil – Sikai, District –

Dausa (Rajasthan) - 303304. ….Applicant Advocate for the applicant: Shri B.P. Rao V E R S U S Union of India through General Manager, South East Central Railway, SECR Zonal Headquarters, Bilaspur, District -

1. Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh - 495004.

Chief Personnel Officer, Personnel Department, 1st Floor, South East Central Railway, Headquarters Office, Bilaspur

2. District - Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)- 495004.

Principal Chief Personnel Officer, South East Central Railway, District Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)- 495004.

3.

Shri Navneet Raj, Deputy CSO, South East Central Railway Headquarters, Bilaspur, District- Bilaspur (C.G) – 495004.

4.

……Respondents Advocate for the respondents: Shri Siddharth Rathod O R D E R By Akhil Kumar Srivastava, JM.-

In the present original application, the applicant was appointed as Substitute Telephone Attendant-cum-Dak Khalasi (in short TADK) vide order dated 21.09.2018 (Annexure A-3). He was attached to Sr. D.S.O/SECR/NGP (respondent no. 4) vide order dated 21.09.2018 . Subsequently, on completion of continuous four months service as Substitute TADK, vide order dated 15.05.2019 he was granted temporary status w.e.f. 19.01.2019 in terms of para 4 of Establishment Rule No. 250/2010 (Annexure A-5). Thereafter, on transfer of the officer to whom the applicant was attached, the applicant also requested for his transfer under the said officer. Consequently, the applicant was transferred vide order dated 27.05.2019 and reported respondent no. 4 at Bilaspur where his services were terminated vide order dated 13.07.2020 (Annexure A- 13) by the Senior Personal Officer, SECR due to unsatisfactory services in accordance with para (9) of Rule 250/2010. The applicant preferred representation dated 11.08.2020 to the General Manager, SECR, Bilaspur (Annexure A-14) but having received no response, he has filed the present original application for setting aside the order dated 13.07.2020 (Annexure A-13) and for a direction to the respondents to treat the applicant in service with all consequential benefits.

2. Per contra, learned counsel for the respondents have filed counter affidavit in which it has been mentioned that the applicant was initially engaged on the post of TADK/Bungalow Peon vide order 21.09.2018 and in terms of para 1515 of IREM Vol. I, he was granted temporary status vide order dated 15.05.2019. Later on, due to transfer of the officer to whom the applicant was attached, he was also transferred vide order dated 11.04.201. The respondents contended that for unsatisfactory service, a warning letter dated 06.04.2020 was issued to the applicant by the officer to whom he was attached but he refused to acknowledge the same and also he was reported for long absence from 26.03.2020 to 10.06.2020. Thereafter, in pursuance of letter dated 10.06.2020 of the Officer, to whom the applicant was attached, for termination of his services owing to unsatisfactory, the services of the applicant were terminated vide order dated 13.07.2020 in terms of para 9 of Estt.

Rule No. 250/2010.

4. The applicant has not filed any rejoinder.

5 We have heard Shri B.P. Rao, learned counsel for the applicant and Shri Siddharth Rathod, learned counsel for the respondents and perused the record.

6. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the impugned termination order dated 13.07.2020 is arbitrary, illegal, and violative of the principles of natural justice. It is contend