Headnote
A) Administrative Law - Promotion Claims - Inordinate delay in claiming promotion invalidates relief - Article 32 of the Constitution - The petitioner’s claim for promotion was dismissed due to an eleven-year delay without valid explanation, despite successive representations. Held that such delay justified refusal of relief (Paras 509F). B) Administrative Law - Premature Retirement - Applicability of Retirement Rules to Judicial Officers - Punjab Civil Service (Premature Retirement) Rules, 1975 - The court held that the rules apply to judicial officers and were finalized after consultation with the High Court, complying with Article 234 of the Constitution (Paras 510E). C) Administrative Law - Public Interest - Definition of public interest in context of premature retirement - The expression
Issue of Consideration
Whether the petitioner was entitled to promotion and whether the premature retirement was valid.
Law Points
- Promotion claims
- Premature retirement
- Public interest
- Judicial service
- Article 32
- Article 311
