Delhi HC raps CAT for trivial directions
29 March 2013 1:17 AM GMT
The Delhi High Court has come down heavily on the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for passing ‘innocuous directions’ to a litigation without issuing notices to the opposite party saying that it was violative of the principle of natural justice.
‘Howsoever strong a case may appear to be, no adjudicatory system can countenance a matter to be disposed of without even putting a notice to opposite party.
‘This is the minimum requirement of principle of natural justice, and who else other than CAT would be bound to observe the same for the reason, except in cases of idle formalities; violation of a principle of natural justice is treated as an injury by itself not requiring any further injury to be shown or to be proved,’ a bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Veena Birbal said.
‘Howsoever strong a case may appear to be, no adjudicatory system can countenance a matter to be disposed of without even putting a notice to opposite party.
‘This is the minimum requirement of principle of natural justice, and who else other than CAT would be bound to observe the same for the reason, except in cases of idle formalities; violation of a principle of natural justice is treated as an injury by itself not requiring any further injury to be shown or to be proved,’ a bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Veena Birbal said.
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