Mr. Hemant Gupta, J.: - Challenge in the present writ petition is to the order dated 20.07.2009 (Annexure P-10) retiring the petitioner from the post of District & Sessions Judge.

2. The petitioner was appointed in the year 1983 as Sub Judge IIIrd Class-cum-Judicial Magistrate IInd Class and was promoted as Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division) in the year 1996. The petitioner was promoted as Additional District & Sessions, Judge in February, 1999. It is pleaded by the petitioner that the Annual Confidential Report (for short ‘the ACR’) of the petitioner for the last 10 years are “B+” except for the years 2001-02 and 2002-03 for which period the same were recorded as “B- Satisfactory”. The said two ACRs alongwith the ACR for the year 1998-99 were down-graded to “B-Average” after the lapse of 8 years and conveyed to the petitioner on 08.02.2008. The petitioner has also pointed out that he was charge-sheeted in the year 1997 with the allegation of tampering with the interim orders dated 07.05.1997 and 19.05.1997 in pursuance to a complaint filed at the instance of Shri S.S.Sidhu, Advocate. Thereafter, the District & Sessions Judge, Bhatinda, was asked by the High Court t