Lt Col Sunil Lumar Vairagi v. Union Of India & ORS.
$~88 to 90 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 7156/2025 & CM APPL. 32294/2025, CM APPL. 36718/2025, CM APPL. 36719/2025, CM APPL. 40485/2025 LT COL ANIL KUMAR AHIRWAR .....Petitioner Through:
Ms. Rajdipa Behura, Sr. Adv with Mr. Chandra Shekhar Yadav, Mr.
Awanish Sinha, Mr. Aditya Acharya, Mr.
Astitva Srivastava, Ms. Poorva Vats, Mr.
Philomon Kani, Ms. Neha Lingwal, Ms.
Aishwarya Gupta, Mr. Shashwat Kabi, Ms.
Aditi Behura, Advs.
versus UNION OF INDIA THROUGH SECRETARY MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (DMA) & ORS.
.....Respondents Through:
Mr. Satya Ranjan Swain, SPC, Mr. Shivam Sachdeva GP with Mr. M K Rahman, Adv. Mr. Kautilya Birat, Mr.
Ankush Kapoor and Mr. Vishwadeep Chandrakar with Major Anish Muralidhar and Captain Carolin Johnson(Army) + W.P.(C) 7161/2025, CM APPL. 32301/2025, CM APPL. 32719/2025, CM APPL. 36720/2025, CM APPL. 36721/2025, CM APPL. 39119/2025 LT COL SUNIL LUMAR VAIRAGI .....Petitioner Through:
Ms. Rajdipa Behura, Sr. Adv with Mr. Chandra Shekhar Yadav, Mr.
Awanish Sinha, Mr. Aditya Acharya, Mr.
Astitva Srivastava, Ms. Poorva Vats, Mr.
Philomon Kani, Ms. Neha Lingwal, Ms.
Aishwarya Gupta, Mr. Shashwat Kabi, Ms.
Aditi Behura, Advs.
versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS.
.....Respondents
Through:
Mr. Neeraj, SPC with Mr.
Vedansh Anand, GP, Mr. Soumyadip Chakraborty and Mr. Sanjay Pal, Advs. with Major Anish Muralidhar and Captain Carolin Johnson(Army) + W.P.(C) 7179/2025, CM APPL. 32357/2025, CM APPL. 36716/2025, CM APPL. 36717/2025 LT COL DILLIP KUMAR BEHERA .....Petitioner Through:
Ms. Rajdipa Behura, Sr. Adv with Mr. Chandra Shekhar Yadav, Mr.
Awanish Sinha, Mr. Aditya Acharya, Mr.
Astitva Srivastava, Ms. Poorva Vats, Mr.
Philomon Kani, Ms. Neha Lingwal, Ms.
Aishwarya Gupta, Mr. Shashwat Kabi, Ms.
Aditi Behura, Advs.
versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS.
.....Respondents Through:
Mr. Satya Ranjan Swain, SPC, Mr. Shivam Sachdeva GP, with Mr.
Kautilya Birat, Mr. Ankush Kapoor and Mr.
Vishwadeep Chandrakar, Advs. with Major Anish Muralidhar and Captain Carolin Johnson(Army)
CORAM:
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA O R D E R (ORAL) % 13.08.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J.
1.
After some hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner restricts to the relief in these OAs to a clarification that the learned Armed
Forces Tribunal1 would not be constrained by any observations or findings contained in the impugned order dated 19 May 2025, whereby stay which was earlier operating in favour of the petitioner strands vacated.
2.
We clarify accordingly.
3.
The writ petitions stand disposed of, accordingly. 4.
We request the learned Tribunal to take up these matters as expeditiously as possible, of course, subject to the pendency of the matters before the Tribunal.
5.
All contentions of the parties shall remain open to be agitated before the Tribunal.
C. HARI SHANKAR, J.
OM PRAKASH SHUKLA, J.
AUGUST 13, 2025/yg 1 "learned Tribunal", hereinafter