LAWS(SC)-2014-6-27

UNION OF INDIA Vs. S.P. NAYYAR

Decided On June 30, 2014
UNION OF INDIA (UOI) Appellant
V/S
S.P. Nayyar Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) This appeal has been preferred by the appellants against the order dated 21st August, 2012 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi, New Delhi in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 3004/2000. By the impugned judgment, the Division Bench of the High Court after going through the relevant record including ACRs of respondent- S.P. Nayyar, opined that due to personal bias of his superior officer, E.N.Ram Mohan, the respondent- S.P. Nayyar was targeted and was wrongly superseded in the matter of departmental promotion and hence allowed the writ petition filed by the respondent directing the appellants to promote the respondent as Additional DIG with back wages with the following observations:

(3.) The factual matrix of the case is as follows:-