1. This writ petition assails an order dated 24 April 2017 passed
by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench1 in OA
2064/2015. We deem it appropriate to reproduce the order in its
entirety:
“Since the question of law and facts involved in both the
aforesaid cases are identical, they are being disposed of by this
common order. For the sake of convenience, we have considered
the facts from OA No.416/2015.
2. The applicant, in pursuance of the Employment
Notification No.220E/open mkt/rectt./2012, dated 30.08.2012, had
applied for a Group ‘D’ post in Northern Railway, in ST Category.
He was allotted Roll No.40312356 and Control Number as
4072582. He participated in the written examination, which was
held on 08.12.2013 and thereafter he was also called for Physical
1 “the Tribunal” hereinafter
Efficiency Test (in short, PET) and after qualifying the same, he
was called for documents verification on 04.06.2014 and thereafter
he was also sent for medical examination, in which the applicant
qualified and declared fit. It is stated that although appointment
letters were issued to other selected candidates, but in respect of
him, the respondents mentioned status “Documents required from
candidate or case recommended by the committee/Admin. to the
Technical Experts for further examination”, on the web-site in
November, 2014. On 12.12.2014 (Annexure A/1), the respondents
mentioned on the web-site that the case of the I applicant was
rejected by the experts. On his personal inquiry about his case, the
staff of the Respondent No.3 informed the applicant that he has put
his signature differently in the respective documents. Hence, the
present OA has been filed mainly on the ground that the
candidature of the applicant has been rejected without issuing any
show cause notice and without giving him any reasonable
opportunity, and without supplying a copy of the expert report,
which is illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory and against the principles
of natural justice.