Chander Mohan and Ors. v. Government of NCT of Delhi and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Delhi High Court batch disposal of writ petitions challenging only notice-orders of the Central Administrative Tribunal in regularisation OAs of contract-appointed employees; interim protection of services granted by clarification that services would not be disengaged pending OA disposal. Keywords: regularisation; contractual appointment; Central Administrative Tribunal; OA pending; interim/interlocutory protection of service; GNCTD respondents; writ disposed (not dismissed) with clarification. Petitioner-side counsel: Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate (with Hetvi Patel, Umesh Kumar, Jepi Y Chiso); respondent-side: Mrs. Avnish Ahlawat (SC GNCTD Services), Nitesh Kumar Singh, Gaurav Dhingra, Shashank Singh, Rajesh Kumar. Useful where interim continuation of service is sought while regularisation proceedings are pending before the Tribunal.
What did the court decide?
Clarification that the petitioners' services would not be disengaged by the respondents pending disposal of the OA before the Tribunal; the writ petitions stood disposed of in those terms.