UNION OF INDIA Vs. RANJIT KUMAR SARKAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Initially upon hearing the learned Counsel for the Railway Administration, we called upon the learned Counsel for the respondent to file his affidavit and fixed the matter for hearing. However, we were not inclined to grant any interim order on the basis of our perception on the entire materials that were placed before us in the light of the submissions made at the Bar.

(2.) But since the learned Counsel for the Railways insisted for an interim order which we did not wish to pass, he felt that the purpose of this application would be fruitless. In such trajectory, we have chosen to hear him afresh as also the learned Counsel for the respondent.

(3.) The Calcutta Bench of the Central Administration Tribunal in O.A. No. 502 of 2066 on 18.7.2008 passed the following order: