P&H: Restores Employment; Says Unfinalised Adverse ACRs Cannot Justify Premature Retirement The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside the first appellate court’s decision upholding the premature retirement of an Agriculture Department employee and restored the trial court decree that declared the retirement illegal. High Court allowed the RSA holding that adverse Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) under challenge and not finalised could not be used to compulsorily retire him. Petitioner had joined as Agricultural
P&H: Restores Employment; Says Unfinalised Adverse ACRs Cannot Justify Premature Retirement
punjab-haryana
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26 May 2026
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Punjab Civil Services (Premature Retirement) Rules, 1975, Rr.3(1)(a), 3(1)(b) -- Premature Retirement - No notice of prescribed period of three months was never served upon peitioner prior to issuance of order of premature retirement - Entire service profile to petitioner unblemised except for 2 adverse ACR's, which themselves had not attained finality as representations preferred against same remained pending for consideration - Very foundation of order of premature retirement becomes legally unsustainable. (Paras 11, 13.2
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