https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=461224 Employees who had not satisfied the prescribed qualifying service could not claim inclusion in the promotion eligibility list or compel relaxation as of right. The promotion rules required 25 years of service, including at least three years as Superintending Engineer, and the respondents were found not to meet that threshold. The relaxation clause was permissive and left any waiver to the discretion of the competent authority; such a discretionary provision did not create an enforceable entitlement or justify a writ of mandamus directing relaxation. The exclusion from the eligibility lists was therefore valid, and the High Court's order quashing the lists and directing relaxation was unsustainable. en-us Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:33:11 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=461224 Employees who had not satisfied the prescribed qualifying service could not claim inclusion in the promotion eligibility list or compel relaxation as of right. The promotion rules required 25 years of service, including at least three years as Superintending Engineer, and the respondents were found not to meet that threshold. The relaxation clause was permissive and left any waiver to the discretion of the competent authority; such a discretionary provision did not create an enforceable entitlement or justify a writ of mandamus directing relaxation. The exclusion from the eligibility lists was therefore valid, and the High Court's order quashing the lists and directing relaxation was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=461224