Baldev Raj Chadha vs Union Of India & Ors on 18 August, 1980
In Baldev Raj Chadha v. Union of India (supra) cited by Mr. Acharya, learned counsel for the petitioner the Supreme Court found that the adverse entries of the petitioner for the years 1961-62 to the end of 1970 had been taken into consideration and the petitioner had been compulsorily retired on the basis of the said adverse entries whereas the petitioner in the said case had no adverse entries during the last five years immediately before the compulsory retirement, i.e. during 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-1975 and 1975- 1976 till the date of his retirement from the service on August 27, 1975 and the petitioner had been allowed to cross Efficiency Bar and had been paid maximum salary in the scale. On these facts, the Supreme Court held that the order of compulsory retirement fails because vital material, relevant to the decision has been ignored and obsolete material, less relevant to the decision has influenced the decision. In the present case, on the other hand, the adverse entries/ features of the service records of the petitioner during the years and months just prior to the impugned orders not to extend the service of the petitioner have been taken into consideration and these adverse entries are obviously relevant entries and not entries which were obsolete and not relevant to the decision.