HONOURABLE HIGH COURTS OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA HAS MADE CLEAR THAT EMPLOYEE CAN'T BE DEMOTED WITHOUT CHANCE TO BE HEARD.

EMPLOYEE CAN'T BE DEMOTED WITHOUT CHANCE TO BE HEARD :-- In a landmark decision issued by justice HS Madaan of the Punjab and Haryana High court has observed ,Even if an employee of the state (Haryana) government has been wrongly promoted ,the person can not be demoted without giving him an opportunity of being heard. The Rules of the natural justice and procedural Rules can't be given go by in such a light and casual manner . Merely by saying that petitioner had managed to get an order with regard to his promotion does not shield the respondents from explaining as to why allegedly wrong promotion was granted to the petitioner . The officers and the other authorities were not expected to be ignorant, naive and novice so as to pass an order granting promotion to the petitioner without due Application of the mind ,the High court has ordered ,and made it clear that the respondents would be at liberty to serve a show cause notice upon the petitioner as to why he should not be reverted to the post before promotion, get his response and then proceed to pass appropriate order in accordance with law .