Padam Singh And ORS. v. Union Of India And ORS.

$~61 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 1094/2020 PADAM SINGH AND ORS. ..... Petitioners Through: Mr. Ankur Chhibber and Mr. Anshuman Mehrotra, Advocates.

versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. ..... Respondents Through: Ms. Sunita Suman, Advocate, and Mr.

Rahul Arya, Government Pleader.

CORAM:

JUSTICE S.MURALIDHAR JUSTICE TALWANT SINGH

O R D E R

% 29.01.2020 C.M. APPL. 3652/2020

1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

W.P.(C) 1094/2020

2. The prayers in the present petition stand covered by the judgment of this Court in Dev Sharma v. Indo-Tibetan Border Police (2019) 174 DRJ 98 (DB), as further clarified by an order dated 4th February, 2019 in W.P.(C) 695/2019 (Ram Chander Kasania v. Union of India).

3. The Respondents issued a Circular dated 20th August, 2019 by way of

implementation of the said judgments, which limited the relief granted in Dev Sharma (supra) only to the 29 Petitioners in that case. However, this Court, by way of its order dated 19th December, 2019 in W.P.(C) 13195/2019 (Bharat Singh v. Union of India), set aside the aforesaid stipulation, and extended the benefit of Dev Sharma (supra) to all similarly placed individuals.

4. The Court now directs the Respondents to issue the necessary orders in terms of Bharat Singh (supra) within 12 weeks from today.

5. The petition is disposed of.

S.MURALIDHAR, J.

TALWANT SINGH, J.

JANUARY 29, 2020 / abc