officer with
reference to the entries in his annual confidential reports.
Resolution 1.2 provides that the Selection Committee
should specifically record in its proceedings that ... satisfied from the remarks in the confidential reports of
the officers selected by it for inclusion in the Select List
that there was nothing against
Brigade. As part of his duty he had to write
interim confidential reports of five officers of the rank of
Major subordinate ... Sehgal was one of
the subordinate officers whose interim confidential report
was written by the petitioner. Under the relevant rules the
officer whose confidential report
observing that it
was not shown that the confidential reports had been
down graded and once they were not down graded, the
question of communicating ... Nigam 's
case, the authority recording the confidential report in
such situation must record reasons for such down
grading in the personal file
interest to retire a never-do-
well, but to juggle with confidential reports when a man's
career is at stake is a confidence ... trick contrary to public
interest. Confidential reports are often subjective,
impressionistic and must receive sedulous checking as basis
for decision making. [435D, E-G]
JUDGMENT
report was not written. There
again the question is failure on the part of the reporting officer or
the reviewing authority not writing the report ... call for such kind of special reports. The
idea is that for not reporting the annual confidential reports of the
incumbent, why the incumbent should
writing
of the confidential is contributing to make the subordinates
work at least to some extent. Therefore, writing the
confidential reports objectively and constructively ... written
confidential report to review such report. The appointing
authority or any equivalent officer would be competent to
approve the confidential reports or character rolls
Court had
considered un-communicated adverse remarks recorded in the Annual
Confidential Report without informing him that the same were being relied
upon for deciding ... unjustified. Learned counsel emphasized that none of the four Annual
Confidential Reports mentioned in paragraph 30 of the impugned order were
communicated to the appellant
following entry
appears to have been made in the Annual Confidential Report
of Reddy:-
"He is under suspension. Allegation against him is
that ... confidential
report is intended to be a general assessment of work
performed by a Government servant subordinate to the
reporting authority, that such reports
wrongly; they have erred in
taking into consideration the Annual Confidential Reports from
1.4.2003 to 31.03.2008; the relevant Annual Confidential Reports
to be considered ... Selection Committee has rightly
taken into consideration the Annual Confidential Reports of those
years only, and therefore the impugned judgments
long there had been in force a system of writing annual confidential reports. Since 1974 or 1975 a system of assignment appraisal was also introduced ... reports. In fact this was being done before the gradual introduction of appraisal reporting system. Each report of an officer, whether an annual confidential report
