Employee Cannot Challenge Promotion of Juniors in Parent Cadre After Accepting Alternative Cadre Promotion Without Protest: Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court delivered an important judgment clarifying that an employee who willingly accepts promotion to a different cadre cannot later challenge the elevation of his juniors in the parent cadre. The Division Bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar held that once a promotion is accepted without protest, the employee cannot subsequently seek retrospective promotion or parity after realizing limited future prospects in the…