W.P.(C) 11589/2024 $~71 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 11589/2024, CM APPL. 48173/2024, CM APPL. 48174/2024, CM APPL. 48175/2024, CM APPL. 63378/2024 & CM APPL. 32099/2025 RAMVATH ASHOK KUMAR AND ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. A. K. Behera, Sr. Adv. with Mr. S. K. Das and Mr. Ansar Ahmad Chaudhary, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Vishwa Pal Singh, CGSC with Mr. Srikant Singh, Mr. Anurag Pandey and Mr. Abhijit Singh, Advs. Mr. Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Angad Mehta, Adv. for Intervenors/Applicants in CM 73288/2024 Ms. Pooja Dhar and Ms. Aakriti Vikas, Advs. for the Applicants in the Impleadment Application CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA ORDER (ORAL) % 20.05.2026 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. CM APPL. 68297/2024 1. None appears to prosecute this application. 2. The application is dismissed. Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR Signing Date:30.05.2026 17:29:30 Signature Not Verified W.P.(C) 11589/2024 CM APPL. 73288/2024 3. The applicants in this application submit that they were not parties before the Central Administrative Tribunal1 and that the judgment of the Tribunal adversely affects their seniority. 4. The Supreme Court has, in the decision in K. Ajit Babu v. UOI2, which has been recently followed in Dr. Jiji K.S. v. Shibu K3, held that, in such a case, the appropriate course of action would be for the affected person to move the Tribunal by way of a fresh Original Application. 5. In such circumstances, learned Counsel for the applicant seeks leave to withdraw this application as he submits that he would move the Tribunal by way of a fresh OA. 6. Leave and liberty is granted as aforesaid. The application is disposed of as withdrawn. CM APPL. 2529/2025 7. The applicants in this application seek to implead themselves as parties in WP (C) 11589/2024. 1 “Tribunal” hereinafter 2 (1997) 6 SCC 473 3 2026 SCC OnLine SC 324 Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR Signing Date:30.05.2026 17:29:30 Signature Not Verified W.P.(C) 11589/2024 8. We have heard learned Counsel for the applicants. 9. After some hearing, learned Counsel for the applicants, seeks leave to withdraw this application as she submits that she would seek appropriate remedies available in law. 10. The application is disposed of as withdrawn. W.P.(C) 11589/2024 11. After some hearing, Mr. Behera, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner, seeks leave to withdraw this writ petition in the light of the judgment of the Supreme Court passed in K. Ajit Babu, as he submits that he would be moving the Tribunal by way of a substantive OA. However, he points out that this Court had, while entertaining this writ petition at the first instance, passed an interim order on 22 August 2024. 12. Accordingly, we dispose of this writ petition with liberty to the petitioners to move a substantive OA before the Tribunal with a prayer for interim relief, if so advised, within three weeks from today (excluding the summer vacations). 13. Till a decision is taken on the prayer for interim relief, keeping in mind the principle actus curiae neminem gravabit4, the interim order dated 22 August 2024 passed by this Court would continue to 4 An act of the Court shall prejudice no man. Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR Signing Date:30.05.2026 17:29:30 W.P.(C) 11589/2024 remain in operation. 14. Needless to say, should the petitioners continue to remain aggrieved by the decision of the Tribunal, our doors would remain open. 15. We make it clear that we have not expressed any opinion on the merits of the matter. C. HARI SHANKAR, J OM PRAKASH SHUKLA, J MAY 20, 2026/AR Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR Signing Date:30.05.2026 17:29:30