The Annual Confidential Report dossiers of 104 officers of Junior Administrative Grade service were forwarded along with the requisition on an assessment made by the DPC.
It requires to be stated, at this stage, that the records show the performance of all officers including that of the respondent was rated very good.
The meeting was companyvened pursuant to the requisition sent by the Ministry of Communication to the UPSC for preparing a year wise panel for 1984, 1985 and 1986, the vacancies being 5, 24 and 25 respectively, in all, 54 vacancies.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by MOHAN, J. Leave granted.
In August 1974 he was promoted to Junior Administrative Grade of the ITS pursuant to the selections made on all India basis by a duly companystituted DPC under the Chairmanship of a Member of the UPSC.
Thereafter he was promoted to the rank of Divisional Engineer Telegraph in September 1966.
