Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 381 · Decided 12 September 1994
Chandra Gupta, Ifs v. Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 381 · [1994] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 370
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5996/1994
- Decided
- 12 September 1994
- Bench
- M.N. VENKATACHALIAH, S. MOHAN, A.S. ANAND (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16(1)
Headnote
SelVice Law-Confidential Report-Seniority and promotio~Selection C post-Supersession of officer in . view of adverse remarks in confidential reports-Expunction of adverse remarks after special review, and promotion effected to selection grade-Whether superseded officer entitled to officers adversely affected by such expunction have right to be heard-Held, in the promotion under consideration, merit and not mere .D E seniority is essentiaHn any event, factual finding of comparative merit by the DPC would have to precede consideration for restoration of
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