2026:CGHC:4252-DB NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 1692 of 2020 WPS No. 1692 of 2020 WPS No. 1692 of 2020 WPS No. 1692 of 2020 WPS No. 1692 of 2020

1 - Surendra Kumar Kaushik S/o Ganesh Ram Kaushik, Aged About 43 Years Working As Sr Pws, R/o Qtr No. 270/1, Ne Railway Colony, Manendragarh, Korea Chhattisgarh 497442- Applicant No. 1 In OA No.203/00432/2016

2 - Krishna Kumar S/o Tarkeshwar Prasad, Aged About 37 Years Working As Sr Pws, R/o Qtr. No. 24/1, Railway Colony, Chirmiri Chhattisgarh 497451- Applicant No. 2 In OA No.2-3/00432/2016

3 - Rajkishore Choudhary S/o Shri Gandhi Choudhary Aged About 43 Years R/o Railway Qr. No. 45, Chandiya Road, District Umaria (Madhya Pradesh) 484660- Applicant In OA No.203/00568/2016 4 - Devnandan Patel S/o Shri Nilambar Patel, Aged About 43 Years Working As Sr PWS, O/o Railway Colony, Belparhad, District Jharsuguda (Orisa) 768217- Applicant In Oa No.203/00548/2016 Petitioner (s)

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1 - Union Of India Through The Secretary, Railway Board, Ministry Of Digitally Railways, Rail Bhawan, Raisena Road, Rafi Marg, New Delhi 110001 signed by R

2 - General Manager, South East Central Railway, New GM Building, NIRALA Bilaspur Chhattisgarh 495004

3 - Chief Personnel Officer, Divisional Office South East Central Railway, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh 492008

4 - Divisional Personnel Officer, Divisional Office South East Central Railway, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh 492008

5 - Gajadhar Prasad Sahu

6 - Jitendra Singh

7 - Santosh Kumar Gupta

8 - Pushpram Kousale

9 - Ramsurat Yadav

10 - Dhananjay Upadhyay

11 - Rameshwar Prasad

12 - Ravi Shankar Dwivedi

13 - Santosh Kumar

14 - Amrit Lal

15 - Deena Nath Yadav

16 - Pramod Kumar Yadav

17 - Pradeep Minj

18 - Vinod Kumar Kanwar

19 - Bind Ram Kousale

20 - Dan Bhushan Tirkey 21 - Manoj Kumar Singh Respondent No.5 to 21 all through Senior Divisional Personnel Officer, Divisional Office, Personnel Branch, SECR, Bilaspur 495004 Respondent(s)

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Hon’ble Smt. Justice Rajani Dubey Hon’ble Shri Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad

CAV Judgment

Per Rajani Dubey J.

1. The present writ petition has been filed by the petitioners against the order dated 20.01.2020 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal in OA No.203/00432/2016, 203/00548/2016 and 203/00568/2016, whereby the Learned Tribunal has dismissed by the Original Application filed by the petitioners.

2. Brief facts of the case are that the official respondents on

21.05.2012 issued notification for filling up 17 posts of Senior Path Way Supervisor (Sr. PWS) in pay scale of Rs.9300-34800 GP 4200/-. The petitioners and the private respondents being eligible participated in the written examinations and the final panel of selected candidates was published on 14.11.2012. The private respondents no.15 was unsuccessful and could not find place in the final panel and thus he and one Shankar Singh moved an Original Application No.221/2013 before the Learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Jabalpur alleging that marks have been allotted for additional qualifications in an arbitrary manner and thus they could not be selected. The learned Tribunal vide order dated 27.08.2015 allowed the said application. Being aggrieved by the order passed by the Tribunal, the official respondents preferred WPS Nо.157/2016 before this Court, which was dismissed vide order dated 18.01.2016. In compliance of the order passed by the Tribunal and this Court, the official respondents vide order dated 17.02.2016 quashed the panel dated 15.02.2013. Thereafter the official respondents vide order dated 08.04.2016 published the panel afresh by granting reservation in promotion and names of the petitioners were excluded, against which the petitioners preferred Original Applications before the Learned Tribunal and vide impugned order the Learned Tribunal dismissed the Original Applications of the petitioners. Hence the present writ petition has been filed by the petitioners.

3. Learned Senior counsel appearing for the petitioners s