Judgment

R.M. SAHAI, J.

(1) INDIAN Airlines is aggrieved by the order of the Delhi High court passed in exercise of its writ jurisdiction quashing the order dated 10/04/1990, promoting respondents 2 to 25 as illegal and in the alternative directing the Corporation to promote the appellant to the post of Deputy Operations Manager with effect from the date the other respondents were promoted and grant all consequential benefits. Reasons for such directions were both legal and factual. It was found that the post of Deputy Operations Manager was mere redesignation of the earlier post of Chief Pilot therefore the respondent was entitled to claim promotion on his Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) and entire procedure of selection on ACR and interview was contrary to rules. Selection was found to be vitiated as the committee was not constituted in accordance with rules and regulations. Method of evaluation based 50 per cent on ACR and 50 per cent on interview, when the field of eligibility comprised officers immediately below, was held to be arbitrary as such wide gap between ACR evaluation and personality test was liable to reduce entire selection process to a farce