'No malafide intent': AFT quashes Army censure after 16-year process, orders Lt Colonel's promotion review
'For a lapse which occurred 12 years ago, the applicant was made to suffer for a long period of time facing two court of inquiries'
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'For a lapse which occurred 12 years ago, the applicant was made to suffer for a long period of time facing two court of inquiries'
Brigadier Ravinder Singh, a 1990-batch officer of the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME), had challenged three confidential reports (CRs), averring that his non-empanelment for promotion by No. 1 Selection Board (SB) was the direct consequence of arbitrary and unjustified downgrading in two CRs
Major General JK Shukla, an Army Air Defence officer of the 1984 batch, was considered by the Special Selection Board twice but was not empanelled for promotion
Quashing the ACRs of a lieutenant colonel who was deputed with the Air Force for the relevant period, the Tribunal’s Chandigarh Bench observes that the grading system in the Air Force is stricter than that in the Army, a fact that needs to be considered
The UPSC provisionally promoted nine HCS officers of the 2002 batch to IAS, including eight facing charges of exam malpractices. These officers, along with a ninth facing another charge, must get their FIRs quashed to finalize their promotion.