Raju Naryana Swamy vs State of Kerala 2025 INSC 563 - Service Law - Promotion - ACRs
Service Law - Promotion - Impact of prior entries in ACRs on promotion- Adverse remarks of an officer for the entire period of service can be taken into consideration while promoting an officer or while passing an order of compulsory retirement. But the weight which must be attached to the adverse remarks depends upon certain sound principles of fairness - The adverse remarks relate to a period prior to an earlier promotion they must be treated as having lost their sting and as weak material, subject however to the rider that if they related to dishonesty or lack of integrity they can be considered to have not lost their strength fully so as to be ignored altogether- Quoted from Badrinath vs. Government of Tamil Nadu (2000) 8 SCC 395. (Para 17)
