UNION OF INDIA Vs. GANESH LAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioners-Union of India and Others have submitted Writ Petitions No. 6562/2003 and 1867/2004 against the orders dated 29. 5. 2002 and 12. 12. 2003 respectively passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Jodhpur Bench, Jodhpur (`the Tribunal') in Original Applications (OA) No. 244/2001 and 92/2003 respectively filed by respondent No. 1 Ganesh Lal. THE subject matter of both the writ petitions being inter-related, on common facts and involving common questions, both the petitions were heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

(2.) THE parties have already had various rounds of litigation, culminating into the two impugned orders. It shall therefore, be useful to narrate chronology of events : Preliminary

(3.) THE applicant submitted rejoinder and claimed that he has worked in the month of July, 2001 also and that respondents (petitioners herein) have stopped payment from the month of October, 2001 onwards to force him to withdraw the OA. THE applicant also seems to have annexed copies of correspondence as Annex. A20 and a copy of fax message as Annex. A21 written by one Rawat Construction to the Assistant Commissioner stating therein that the applicant was working since June, 2001 and this was done to deprive him of the temporary status and regularisation. It also appears that applicant filed MA No. 7/2002 contending that payment to him has been stopped from the month of October, 2001 to force him to withdraw the case and the salary deserves to be released to save him from starvation.