https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172972 A promotion assessment was held vulnerable where it relied on stale, expunged or dropped adverse material, ignored substantial favourable record entries, and gave decisive weight to weakened disciplinary inputs. The Court treated the later censure as void because the underlying disciplinary foundation had disappeared, so it could not be used to deny promotion. It also found a reasonable likelihood of bias in the Screening Committee because the Chief Secretary was involved in a live dispute with the officer, and the doctrine of necessity did not apply. Relief was moulded by granting promotion to the super-time scale with consequential service and pensionary benefits. en-us Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 17:38:16 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172972 A promotion assessment was held vulnerable where it relied on stale, expunged or dropped adverse material, ignored substantial favourable record entries, and gave decisive weight to weakened disciplinary inputs. The Court treated the later censure as void because the underlying disciplinary foundation had disappeared, so it could not be used to deny promotion. It also found a reasonable likelihood of bias in the Screening Committee because the Chief Secretary was involved in a live dispute with the officer, and the doctrine of necessity did not apply. Relief was moulded by granting promotion to the super-time scale with consequential service and pensionary benefits. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172972