https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283302 Adverse confidential reports are departmental assessments of a government servant's work, conduct and efficiency, and they do not require specific instances in every case or a prior hearing before entry; the employee's remedy is representation to a superior authority for correction or expunction. Non-promotion based on comparative merit in a selection post is not a disciplinary penalty, and seniority alone does not confer an enforceable right to appointment. Allegations of mala fides must be supported by specific material and cannot rest on conjecture or dissatisfaction with supersession. Under Rule 56(j) of the Fundamental Rules, compulsory retirement is valid where the authority bona fide forms the opinion that retirement is in public interest after considering the service record. en-us Tue, 08 Sep 1970 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:27:43 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283302 Adverse confidential reports are departmental assessments of a government servant's work, conduct and efficiency, and they do not require specific instances in every case or a prior hearing before entry; the employee's remedy is representation to a superior authority for correction or expunction. Non-promotion based on comparative merit in a selection post is not a disciplinary penalty, and seniority alone does not confer an enforceable right to appointment. Allegations of mala fides must be supported by specific material and cannot rest on conjecture or dissatisfaction with supersession. Under Rule 56(j) of the Fundamental Rules, compulsory retirement is valid where the authority bona fide forms the opinion that retirement is in public interest after considering the service record. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 08 Sep 1970 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283302