P&H: Rejects Retrospective Promotion Claim Filed Years After Junior’s Promotion
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition by three Haryana government employees seeking promotion as Assistants from 23 September 1998, the date a junior employee, Rekha, was promoted. The petitioners also sought consequential service benefits, including arrears of pay, and relied on relief granted to other employees in a separate case.
The petitioners said that earlier departmental decisions had resulted in other employees being promoted with effect from 1998. They also pointed to representations made to the authorities and argued that they should receive the same benefit as colleagues who obtained retrospective promotion through a 2025...
