1988 (8) TMI 417

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.... an IAS Officer in the cadre of the Maharashtra Government. In January 1986, the State Government of Maharashtra gave senior time scale to his juniors while denying the same to him. The appellant moved the High Court of Bombay for relief with writ petition No. 656 of 1986. Upon Constitution of the Central Administrative Tribunal, the writ petition stood transferred to the Tribunal. The Tribunal by....

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....record was of opinion that there is no proof that the appellant had received the government letter containing confidential remarks. Yet the Tribunal proceeded on the basis that there was nothing wrong in relying upon that confidential report to deny benefit to the appellant. Indeed, the conclusion of the tribunal is very curious. It is a settled principle that an uncommunicated adverse report shou....

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....to have a good case. The report said to have been communicated under the first letter obviously does not indicate anything against the appellant. It reads as follows: He is serious, intelligent and a quiet type of officer and that he took interest in group discussions. It however states that the appellant would not freely mix with his fellow probationers and he had a marked inferiority compl....