Employee Shifting to Another Cadre Cannot Later Claim Regular Promotion in Former Cadre: Calcutta High Court

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court consisting of Justice Madhuresh Prasad and Justice Prasenjit Biswas delivered an important judgment clarifying the relationship between the Career Advancement Scheme and subsequent claims for regular promotion. The Court held that an employee who has already availed benefits under the Career Advancement Scheme and later exited the original cadre cannot claim promotional benefits introduced later for that cadre. Facts of the Case…