https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302001 Where the currency of a minor penalty has expired, suitability for promotion must be assessed on the overall service record and not rejected merely because the penalty once fell within the assessment period. The HC found no jurisdictional error in the Tribunal's direction to reconsider the respondent's case for promotion to IAS, because the Tribunal had applied the relevant DoPT and UPSC guidelines and noted that the rejection was based only on the earlier presence of the penalty in the matrix, without evaluating the record after expiry of the penalty period. The writ challenge failed and the reconsideration direction remained in force. en-us Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:56:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302001 Where the currency of a minor penalty has expired, suitability for promotion must be assessed on the overall service record and not rejected merely because the penalty once fell within the assessment period. The HC found no jurisdictional error in the Tribunal's direction to reconsider the respondent's case for promotion to IAS, because the Tribunal had applied the relevant DoPT and UPSC guidelines and noted that the rejection was based only on the earlier presence of the penalty in the matrix, without evaluating the record after expiry of the penalty period. The writ challenge failed and the reconsideration direction remained in force. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302001