Union of India & Ors. v. Praveen Kumar & Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Centre's writ against CAT (Principal Bench) order dated 07.11.2025 in O.A. 4349/2024 directing a review DPC for grant of the one additional mark attached to the respondent's DRM Award 2021-22 (unclaimed due to inadvertent error; mark would have raised total to 29+) dismissed by Delhi High Court on 10.02.2026; facts not in dispute, extraordinary Article 226 jurisdiction declined. Keywords: DRM Award increment mark, review DPC, Departmental Promotion Committee, Central Administrative Tribunal, Article 226, writ dismissed.
What did the court decide?
Since the facts of the present case are not in dispute, the Court is not inclined to exercise its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. ¶13