BABU, J. :
Leave granted.
The legal validity of 'out of turn promotion' given to
some Police Officials based upon their courage displayed
during ... impugned promotion made by the DGP cannot be
treated as regular promotion under Chapter 13 of the
Punjab Police Rules. The adhoc promotion carried
seniority of the officials promoted out of turn. The condition precedent for out of turn promotion is some
outstanding quality (of sportspersons or marksmen ... promotion or out of turn promotion. If such inappropriate promotion is made in the normal course or out of turn, it would be subject
issue in the present case relates to grant of out of turn promotion to the applicant.
2. The applicant was initially appointed as Constable (Executive ... been granted out of turn promotions. The remaining one viz. the applicant herein has been denied out of turn promotion for the reason
approved the recommendations both for
direct recruitment and out of turn promotion, by two separate
letters i.e. letter No.628 dated 29.07.2008 the recommendation ... letter No.629 dated 29.07.2008
recommendation for out of turn promotion were sent to the
Government. The appointment letters in reference to limited
competitive examination
Police, Rewa who was leading the teams, recommended out of turn
promotion to the present petitioners and other team members, who played
important role ... turned out to be
successful, but the said success cannot solely be attributed to those 18 persons
only who were awarded out of turn promotion
consider and decide the recommendations for grant of out of turn promotion to the petitioners pending on 7.6.2014 in accordance with the office order ... exemplary services some of the petitioners have been granted out of turn promotion.
It is averred that there exist an Office Order dated 3.2.1994 issued
whereby the claim of the petitioner seeking
out of turn promotion has been rejected.
2. Brief facts leading to filing of the case are that ... Police recommended the case of the
petitioner for out of turn promotion, as per the policy laid down
by the Police Regulations. The petitioner
departmental officer but was not considered and was turned down for grant of out of turn promotion by Screening Committee, though without assigning any reason ... Police, but the Screening Committee summarily turned down the request for grant of out of turn promotion by order dated 27-5-2003 without assigning
turn promotions to a particular
officer/police official. There is no bar that third out of turn
promotion cannot be granted to deserving officer ... having already received two out of turn promotions
while granting out of turn promotion to other team members i.e.
SI Neeraj Kumar, HC Satish
action of the respondents in not granting him out of
turn promotion on the post of Inspector.
2. The petitioner while posted as Sub Inspector ... decided on 8.2.2013.
3. In turn, respondents rejected the claim of the petitioner for
grant of out of turn promotion by order dated 27.4.2013. Criticizing
