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2026 Supreme(Online)(CAT) 3717

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
Harvinder Kaur Oberoi, Member (J), Sumeet Jerath, Member (A)
Vivek Kumar Khichar – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. MK Bhardwaj, Ms. Sriparna Chatterjee, Mr. Manish
For the Respondents: Mr. Rajeev Kumar

Table of Content
1. applicants' service history and cadre vacancies (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 58 , 62 , 64)
2. vacancies filled per rules at occurrence (Para 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20)
3. new rules apply to backlog vacancies (Para 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 41)
4. carried-forward vacancies maintain quota (Para 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57)
5. cbdt rejects promotion-only backlog filling (Para 59 , 60 , 61 , 63 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74)
6. rules at consideration time govern promotions (Para 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86)
7. applications dismissed, no merits found (Para 87)

ORDER

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

The issue in all these Original Applications is the same and hence with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, all the captioned OAs have been heard together and are being disposed of this common order. However, for writing the present order, the facts are being taken from OA No. 1273/2025 (Vivek Kumar Khichar) treating the same as the lead case.

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