Natural justice and long-acquiesced promotion: High Court refused to interfere with quashing of employee reversion.

A departmental reversion of employees from a higher post was not disturbed because the employees had continued in that post for more than two years, no suppression of material facts was shown, and the reversion had been ordered without hearing them. The High Court found no new material beyond what had already been before the Tribunal and held that no ground existed to interfere with the Tribunal's view. The challenge to the order quashing the reversion was therefore rejected, and restoration of the higher post remained in force.

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Issues: Whether the Tribunal's order quashing the department's reversion of the employees and restoring their higher post called for interference, particularly when the reversion was made after a long lapse and without hearing the affected employees.

Analysis: The Tribunal had set aside the reversion after noting that the employees had been allowed to continue in the higher post for more than two years and that no suppression of material facts by them was shown. The Court found no new material placed before it beyond what was already before the Tribunal and also noted that the departmental decision had been taken without hearing the employees. In these circumstances, no ground was made out to disturb the Tribunal's view.

Conclusion: The challenge to the Tribunal's order was rejected and the order quashing the reversion was left undisturbed.

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