$~17 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 6573/2017 VINOD KUMAR & ORS .....Petitioners Through: Dr. Ashwani Bhardwaj, Advocate.

versus BIMAL JULKA & ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. S.M. Arif and Ms. Shabnam Perween, Advocates.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KSHETARPAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN

O R D E R

% 27.01.2026

1. This Writ petition is filed by the Petitioners challenging the order dated 10.03.2016 (hereinafter referred to as ‘impugned order’), passed by learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi in C.P. No. 357/2015 in O.A. No. 2591/2013.

2. By the impugned order, the learned Tribunal, after considering all aspects of the matter, had refused to proceed with the contempt petition. Paragraph 9 of the impugned order reads as under:

“9. It is to be seen that this Tribunal disposed of the OA No. 2591/2013, summarily and without going into the merits of the case and that the Hon’ble High Court of Patna while disposing of the CWJC No. 6451/2010 (supra) also observed that the direction should only be to consider the cases of the applicants but not to grant the same, without examining each case on its own merits.”

3. It is pertinent to note th