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 Inspector in 1964 and was later posted to the Horticulture Wing. He was prematurely retired in March 1990, primarily on the basis of adverse ACRs for 1986–87 and 1987–88. The trial court decreed his suit, but...
