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What the Court ordered
In view of the aforesaid peculiar facts of the present case, the DPC which met in July 1986 was justified in re- sorting to the .sealed cover procedure, notwithstanding the fact that the charge-sheet in the departmental proceedings was issued in August/December, 1987.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
When an employee is due for promotion, increment etc. but disciplinary/criminal proceedings are pending against him at the relevant time, the findings of his entitlement to such benefit are kept in a sealed cover to be opened after the proceedings in question are over. According to this procedure, while the findings are kept in the sealed cover, the vacancy which might have gone to the officer concerned is filled only on an officiating basis.…
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