https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=463522 For sealed cover purposes, criminal proceedings are treated as pending only when a charge-sheet is filed before the criminal court, not during preliminary inquiry or investigation alone. The governing position, drawn from Supreme Court exposition and read with later departmental instructions, is that a real legal cloud arises once criminal judicial proceedings are instituted, with cognizance by the Magistrate marking the relevant stage under the 2012 office memorandum. The sealed cover procedure is intended to prevent promotion where integrity is genuinely in issue, while avoiding denial of promotion on the basis of an unfinalised investigation. On that basis, promotion consideration may be withheld once the charge-sheet has been filed. en-us Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:28:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=463522 For sealed cover purposes, criminal proceedings are treated as pending only when a charge-sheet is filed before the criminal court, not during preliminary inquiry or investigation alone. The governing position, drawn from Supreme Court exposition and read with later departmental instructions, is that a real legal cloud arises once criminal judicial proceedings are instituted, with cognizance by the Magistrate marking the relevant stage under the 2012 office memorandum. The sealed cover procedure is intended to prevent promotion where integrity is genuinely in issue, while avoiding denial of promotion on the basis of an unfinalised investigation. On that basis, promotion consideration may be withheld once the charge-sheet has been filed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=463522