Pay Rs 15L to 'outstanding' officer shunted out as 'deadwood': SC
The Supreme Court of India has ordered the government to pay Rs 15 lakh in compensation to an Indian Trade Service officer who was wrongfully retired as 'deadwood'. The court criticized the government's decision-making process, noting that the officer had consistently received 'outstanding' performance ratings.
Why it matters
This ruling serves as a check on administrative overreach and protects the professional reputation and rights of civil servants.
NEW DELHI: Taking exception to Centre declaring an "outstanding" Indian Trade Service officer "dead wood" and punishing him with compulsory retirement, Supreme Court Wednesday directed all pecuniary benefits and notional promotions to him be restored and ordered govt to pay him Rs 15 lakh as compensation. S S Das was forced to retire in 2018, five years before his superannuation.A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu, which had directed Centre to place dossiers and the annual confidential record of the officer before it, found he was consistently graded as outstanding/very good from 1994 and promoted just months before the punishment.
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