Reserved CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL, JABALPUR BENCH JABALPUR Original Application No.200/537/2025 nd Jabalpur, this Thursday, the 02 day of April, 2026 HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AKHIL KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, JUDICIAL MEMBER Ravindra Kumar Dwivedi, S/o Jeet Narayan Dwivedi, aged about 26, Occupation – Unemployed, R/o Tahsil Bahari, Gram Majhareti Khurd, Post Kuchwahi, Mjhreti Kothar, Sidhi, District – Sidhi (M.P.) – 486661.

-Applicant (By Advocate – Shri Ashok Kumar Gupta)

V e r s u s

1. Union of India through General Manager, West Central Railway, Indira Market, Jabalpur (M.P.) – 482001.

2. West Central Railway through its General Manager, Personnel Department, Jabalpur (M.P.) – 482001.

3. Collector Sidhi, District Sidhi (M.P.) – 486661.

4. Sub Divisional Officer and Land Acquisition Officer, Sub Division Sihawal, District Sidhi (M.P.) 486670.

-Respondents (By Advocate – D.S. Baghel)

(Date of reserving order : 16.12.2025)

O R D E R The applicant is aggrieved that he has not been offered appointment in lieu of acquisition of his land.

2. Brief facts of the case are that land of the applicant bearing Khasra number 283/2/5, area 0.004 hectare was acquired by the Railways for their Rail Project and an