UNION OF INDIA Vs. CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By the Court.- It appears that by the order dated 12th August, 1997 (Annexure No. 2 to the Writ Petition), the respondent No. 3, Ram Murti Tripathi was transferred from the post of General Manager, Ordnance Equipment Factory, Kanpur to the post of Deputy Director General, Ordnance Equipment Factory Headquarter, Kanpur. The said order was challenged by the respondent No. 3 by filing Original Application before the Central Administrative Tribunal (in short 'the Tribunal') which was numbered as Original Application No. 878 of 1997.

(2.) By the order dated 6th November, 1997, the Tribunal allowed the said Original Application holding the order of transfer of the respondent No. 3 as illegal. Copy of the said order dated 6th November, 1997 has been filed as Annexure No. 1 to the Writ Petition. Certified copy of the said order has also been filed as Annexure No. 6 to the Writ Petition.

(3.) Against the said order dated 6th November, 1997 passed by the Tribunal, the petitioners filed the present Writ Petition. By the order dated 4.2.1998, the Writ Petition was admitted. On the Stay Application, the Court passed an order dated 4.2.1998 staying the operation of the said order dated 6th November, 1997 passed by the Tribunal.