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PROMOTION AFTER SUPERANNUATION

INTRODUCTION 

Hello friends, today we shall discuss the technicalities which are quite common in the service industry, particularly with the employees who are serving in the government jobs. Very often, the person who is retired on attaining the age of super-annuation is being left out merely on the pretext that the date on which DPC (Departmental Promotional Committee) is being held, the concerned employee is already being retired. That is to say, the persons who are otherwise eligible for promotion is left out merely because the date on which DPC was held, he/she is not on the rolls of the said company. 

ISSUE 

whether a person who has attained the age of superannuation before the date of DPC is eligible for promotion or not?

LAW POINT 

In all these years, there were diverse viewpoints on this issue, many courts have observed that merely because there is delay in conducting DPC's, the employee shall not be held liable. However, to be very specific, there was a judgment commonly named as PG George Judgment, in which the Tribunal ordered in favor of the retired employee to be eligible for promotion from the date his / her junior has been promoted. The same has been upheld by the higher courts as well. This judgement has been duly passed considering the OM issued by DOpT in the year 1998. 

Recently, in the year 2023, the Division bench of the Delhi High Court in Case titled UOI VS Bishan Singh, has taken up the same issue wherein DPC was held after the employee has attained superannuation but has not considered him merely because the employee was not in service when the DPC held. However, the Division Bench following the above discussed scenario, has observed that since the junior was promoted from the year when the retired employee was in service, hence by applying the principle followed in PG George Case, it was held that the retired person is eligible for Notional promotion & other retirial benefits since the date his / her junior was promoted.  

Till date there are judgments available favouring both sides, however, the ratio decided in the judgment passed by Delhi High Court as discussed above has made more or less clear that in case a junior is being promoted from the date when the retired employee was in service, the Company cannot deny the same to the retired employee merely by saying that he was not on rolls when the DPC was held.

I hope I have made myself clear, for any suggestions please feel free to write in the comment section below.


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