Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Sh Ram Kishan
Case brief
What is this about?
Municipal Corporation of Delhi; 18 LPAs of 2025 (503-507, 353-355, 357, 358, 376, 378, 379, 380, 509-512) with connected CM APPLs; challenge to Single Judge judgment dt. 04.07.2024 in W.P.(C) 2990/2017 & connected matters upholding Industrial Tribunal Awards on Garden Chaudhary pay scale for officiating/ad hoc duty-holders; appellant cited (2019) 18 SCC 301 para 91 re recruitment rules/educational qualifications Mali vs Garden Chaudhary; complaint that 33 writ petitions decided on one case's facts; LPAs dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to file review petition before learned Single Judge; no merits observation; S.14 Limitation Act 1963 benefit for time computation; Delhi High Court, 08.08.2025; Subramonium Prasad & Saurabh Banerjee JJ.; appellant counsel Dr. Divya Swamy (Standing Counsel); respondents' counsel Varun Prasad & Anuj Aggarwal (Item Nos.27-35).
What did the court decide?
All eighteen LPAs dismissed as withdrawn, expressly without observation on the merits; appellant granted leave and liberty to withdraw and to file a review petition before the learned Single Judge / take remedies in accordance with law; benefit of Section 14 of the Limitation Act, 1963 accorded while computing the time taken since filing of the LPAs till the date of disposal.