UNION OF INDIA Vs. JHUMUR CHANDRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Mr. Asim Hati, ld. Advocate Mr. Tarun Kumar Sur, ld. Advocate Ms. Nibedita Barui, ld. Advocate ..for the Petitioner in WPCT 57/2015.

(2.) These writ applications arise out of one final order dated February 10, 2015 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Calcutta Bench, Kolkata in the matter of Jhumur Chandra vs. Metro Railway in O.A. 350/00805/2014. The operative portion of the above order is quoted below:

(3.) It is submitted by Mr. P.S. Bose, learned Senior Advocate appearing on behalf of the Union of India, that an administrative member of a Tribunal created under Article 323A of the Constitution of India has no power to decide the issue involved in the original application sitting singly in view of the settled principles of law decided in the matter of State of M.P. vs. B.R. Thakare and Ors. reported in (2002) 10 SCC 338.