B K GUPTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Shri Rakesh Nigam learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Standing Counsel.

(2.) THE petitioner (since deceased) chal lenged his order of compulsory retirement dated 25-9-1992. While working with the Food Corporation of India, he was compulsorily retired by order dated 25-9- 1992.

(3.) SHRI R. K. Nigam though has made an effort to establish that there was no material before the screening committee and the ap pointing authority, so as to form an opinion on objective consideration of the said mate rial for treating the petitioner as dead wood or inefficient so as not to retain him in ser vice but on perusal of the averments made in the counter affidavit and the report of the screening committee, we are of the view that there was sufficient material on the basis of which the order of compulsory retirement was passed.