Jammu, July 19: A bench of Central Administrative Tribunal comprising Judicial member RS Jain and administrative member Anand Mathur after hearing restrained government from making any promotion of Junior Agriculture Assistant of Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture (Subordinate) Service, if they do not possess five years of service as Subject Matter Specialist (Grade-III) and Subject Divisional Agriculture Officer in a petition filed by petitioner aggrieved in granting further promotion to respondents no. 4 to 32 were promoted vide Govt. order no. 98-JK(Agri) of 2020 dated 10.06.2020.
It is stated that the respondent no. 4 to 32 as on date have not completed even one year service against Class-VI posts, therefore, are not eligible, even to be considered for promotion to various posts under Class-V under J&K Agriculture (Gazetted) Service Recruitment Rules, 1988.
CAT after hearing issued notice to respondents and in the meanwhile ordered that the respondents are temporarily restrained from making any promotion of Junior Agriculture Assistant of Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture (Subordinate) Service, if they do not possess five years of service as Subject Matter Specialist (Grade-III) and Subject Divisional Agriculture Officer.
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