UNION OF INDIA Vs. MEENA ORAON

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The order impugned in this writ petition has been passed in O.A. No. 165 of 2010 by the Central Administrative Tribunal Calcutta Bench on 16th September 2011. The application filed by the respondents under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act for compassionate appointment of the respondent No. 2 has been allowed by the Tribunal. Aggrieved by that order the petitioners have approached this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

(2.) The brief facts giving rise to the present petition are as follows :-

(3.) Mr. Ashok Chakraborty appearing for the petitioners has submitted before us that the Calcutta Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal had no territorial jurisdiction to entertain the application filed by the respondents as the deceased employee was working with Northeast Frontier Railway in the Katihar division. The learned counsel submitted that since Katihar does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Calcutta bench the application could not have been entertained by the Tribunal. He further pointed out that the Headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Railway are at Maligoan which is in Assam and therefore, the respondents could not maintain the application before the Calcutta Bench.