Sh. Hukum Chand v. Union Of India And ORS.

$~10 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 6744/2018 & CM No.25622/2018 (for stay) SH. HUKUM CHAND ..... Petitioner Through Mr.R.K. Shukla, Adv.

versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

..... Respondents Through Mr.Praveen Kumar Jain, Adv. with Mr.Mehar, AAO of R-1.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE HIMA KOHLI HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE REKHA PALLI

O R D E R

% 03.07.2018 1.

The petitioner is aggrieved by the judgment dated 18th May, 2018 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi, dismissing an Original Application filed by him (OA No.1818/2018) wherein he had sought quashing/setting aside of the order dated 9th February, 2018 passed by the respondents deciding to conduct an inquiry against him based on a charge-sheet dated 14th June, 2017.

2.

After addressing arguments for some time, learned counsel for the petitioner states that he does not wish to press the present petition but requests that since the petitioner has not filed a reply to the charge-sheet so far, he may be given one last opportunity of ten days to do so.

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3.

In view of the limited relief prayed for by the petitioner, in the interest of justice the petitioner is granted ten days reckoned from 4th July, 2018, as a last opportunity to file a reply to the charge-sheet dated 14th June, 2017, failing which the inquiry officer, shall proceed with the inquiry from the stage at which it is at present. The petition is disposed of along with the pending application. HIMA KOHLI, J REKHA PALLI, J JULY 03, 2018/aa W.P.(C) 6744/2018 Page No.2 of 2