ORDER

Hon’ble Ms. Harvinder Kaur Oberoi, Member (J)

1. Since a common question of facts and law is involved in the present Original Applications, with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, all the OAs were heard together and are being decided by this common order. For the sake of brevity, the facts are primarily being extracted from OA No. 1418/2022.

2. By way of the present O.A. filed under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the applicant has prayed for quashing of the impugned charge memorandum and for grant of consequential benefits.

3. The claim of the applicant has been contested by the respondents by filing their reply. We have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the pleadings and documents available on record.

4. It is not in dispute that the applicant had applied for the post of Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistant pursuant to the Direct Recruitment Examination, 2011–12, was declared successful and joined service in the year 2014.

5. Subsequently, certain discrepancies in signatures were alleged by the respondents and specimen signatures of the applicants were obtained and sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL). Based s