{"id":146936,"date":"1958-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1958-10-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/l-balakrishnan-vs-the-deputy-inspector-general-of-on-31-october-1958"},"modified":"2015-01-04T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:04:09","slug":"l-balakrishnan-vs-the-deputy-inspector-general-of-on-31-october-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/l-balakrishnan-vs-the-deputy-inspector-general-of-on-31-october-1958","title":{"rendered":"L. Balakrishnan vs The Deputy Inspector-General Of &#8230; on 31 October, 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">L. Balakrishnan vs The Deputy Inspector-General Of &#8230; on 31 October, 1958<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1959 Mad 270, (1959) IILLJ 514 Mad, (1959) 1 MLJ 220<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Rajagopalan<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Rajagopalan<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>  Rajagopalan, J.   <\/p>\n<p> 1.  All that the petitioner could claim was that at one time he was considered fit for promotion, and that subsequently he was told he was not fit for promotion. Names of persons considered fit for promotion are included in what is known to the department as the C list. That by itself confers no enforceable rights on the persons whose names have been so included. Promotion cannot be claimed as a matter of right. Neither the removal of a name from the list of persons tentatively considered fit for promotion, nor even denial of promotion can be equated to any of the punishments for which the Civil Service (Classification and Control) Rules provide. As I said, promotion is not a question of right. Even if the preparation of the list was governed by any statutory rules, neither the amendment of the list nor deletion of names therefrom will make that a justiciable issue, because both continuance in office and preferment in due course or otherwise are still within the pleasure of the executive.  <\/p>\n<pre>\n \n\n 2. The removal of the petitioner's name which is admitted in the counter affidavit will not make\n\nit a justiciable issue.    It is on that ground that I must direct the discharge of    the rule nisi.    The petition is dismissed.    No order as to costs.  \n\n \n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court L. Balakrishnan vs The Deputy Inspector-General Of &#8230; on 31 October, 1958 Equivalent citations: AIR 1959 Mad 270, (1959) IILLJ 514 Mad, (1959) 1 MLJ 220 Author: Rajagopalan Bench: Rajagopalan ORDER Rajagopalan, J. 1. All that the petitioner could claim was that at one time he was considered fit for promotion, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L. 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