New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Railways to comply, within four weeks, with an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) directing the regularisation of commission vendors and bearers who had been litigating for decades for their service benefits.

The Court further directed that if the Railways failed to comply with the directions, the Central Administrative Tribunal would revive the contempt proceedings, which had been kept on hold during the pendency of the writ petitions, and take them to their logical conclusion.

A Division Bench of Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla dismissed two writ petitions filed by the Union of India challenging the CAT's November 2016 o...