JUDGEMENT
ANINDITA ROY SARASWATI, J. -
(1.) THE petitioner Smti Sulochana instituted the present writ application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India with the prayers directing
the respondent authorities to expunge the adverse entry made in her
service record for the year 2008 - 2009 and 2009 -2010 and a direction upon
the respondent No 1 to conduct a review Departmental Promotional
Committee in respect of the petitioner for appointment to the post of
Deputy Director (Official Language) under the respondents authorities and
also to set aside the order dated 22nd February, 2011 whereby the
respondent No 6 was promoted to the post of Deputy Director (Of ficial
Language) along with many other prayers.
(2.) THE fact of the case in short is that the petitioner was appointed on 4th July 1985 as Hindi Translator by the Office of Respondent No 3. On 15th
November 1994 she was promoted to the post of Hindi Officer. Afterwards
she was nominated as Public Information Officer under respondent No 3.
After getting communication from her office on 11th December 2007 she
duly submitted an application expressing her willingness for promotion to
the post Deputy Director (Official Language). The petitioner availed
Child Care Leave from 28th May 2009 to 13th November 2009 and the said
leave was extended by respondent No 3 from time to time upto 1st July
2007. The petitioner afterwards came to know that the respondent No 1 promoted the respondent No 6,who is admittedly junior to her, to the post
of Deputy Director (Official Language) but rejected the candidature of
the petitioner by the DPC.
Then the petitioner made a detailed representation before the office of respondent No 1 for not considering the case of the petitioner for
promotion to the post of Deputy Director (Official Language) and then she
was informed by letter dated 28th March 2011 that her candidature was not
considered taking into account of relevant facts and the ACR grading did
notrecommend the name of the petitioner for promoting to the post Deputy
Director (Official Language). Then the petitioner was also communicated
by the respondents regarding her ACR grading along with the copy of the
relevant ACR for those periods i.e. 2008 -2009 and 2009 -2010. It was also
mentioned that as the correspondence address of the petitioner was not
available to the respondents for which they were unable to communicate
the ACR grading to the petitioner within time. The petitioner then again
filed a representation to the respondent No 1 and 2 seeking for promotion
to the post of Deputy Director (Official Language) which was ultimately
turned down by the respondents for which the petitioner compelled to file
this writ petition before this court.
(3.) THE respondent No.1, 2 and 3 filed the affidavit -in opposition without annexing a single copy of documents stating that as per established
procedure of ICAR/ Government of India any employee dissatisfied with
her/his grading can make a representation to the Appellate Authority. But
in lieu of filling any such representation for consideration of the ACR
grading, the petitioner filed this writ petition which is premature.
Furthermore, the writ petitioner is a habitual poor performer which is
evident from the record for the year 2007 -2008 and she is unable to
perform her duty properly the remarks in the ACR are based on facts and
not in mala fide intention. The respondent authorities attempted to
communicate the adverse entries made in the concerned ACR to the
petitioner but at that time she was on leave for a substantial period and
in absence of discloser of residential address in the service records the
authorities were not in position to communicate the same.;
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