The Madhya Pradesh High Court has fined the MP Power Transmission Company Rs 1 lakh because it didn’t submit an employee’s yearly performance report on time. This caused a delay in the employee’s seniority, allowing his juniors to get promotions before him.
Santosh Kumar Shrivastava, an MP Power Transmission Company employee filed a mcomplaint stating that he started working as a testing assistant grade-2 at MPEB in September, 1977. He later got promoted to testing assistant grade-1 and was transferred to the transmission company.
In October 2010, when there was a chance for promotion, he couldn’t get it because his annual confidential report (ACR) was missing, while his junior colleagues got promoted. Even after submitting a request to the company’s senior officials to restore his seniority, it was rejected without any explanation. Due to this, he had to take the matter to court to seek fairness.
The judge, Justice Vivek Agrawal, imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the company, stating that it was the company’s duty to have the employee’s performance report ready during the promotion process. The court held the company responsible for the petitioner’s difficulties and ordered them to fix the employee’s seniority, providing him with all the benefits he missed due to the delayed promotion. The court also instructed the company to restore the employee’s seniority and grant him the benefits of the promotion retroactively.
