Delhi High Court says NCST has no power to direct grant of promotion

“It is, therefore, clear that respondent no.2, in the present case being the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, had no power to pass the impugned order dated July 6, 2015 which issued directions for promotion of respondent no.1 (Meena),” the high court said.

“In view of the above, this writ petition is allowed and disposed of setting aside the impugned order dated April 30, 2015 of the respondent no.2 (NCST),” the court said.

In its July 6, 2015 communication to the Centre, the NCST had advised the government to grant regular promotion to Meena to the post of lower division clerk from 2006 and send a compliance report on it.

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