The High Court of Delhi has ruled that the action of the Government of NCT of Delhi (GNCTD) in denying Child Care Leave (CCL) to a teacher citing administrative inconvenience, while simultaneously sanctioning her Extraordinary Leave (EOL) for the same period, is “arbitrary and discriminatory.”

A Division Bench comprising. Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Madhu Jain set aside an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which had dismissed the teacher’s plea. The High Court directed the government to convert the petitioner’s 303-day EOL period into CCL.

Background of the Case

The petition was filed by Smt. Rajesh Rathi, a TGT (Mathematics) at the Government Co-Ed Senior Secondary School, Hiran Kudna, New Delhi. She had challenged the CAT’s order of 09.07.2019, which dismissed

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