Priyanka Rani v. State of Haryana and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Priyanka Rani v. State of Haryana and others, CWP-5856-2025, High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh, decided 03.03.2025 by Hon'ble Mr. Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya (oral). Keywords: Assured Career Progression (ACP) scale; Extra Ordinary Leave (EOL); leave of kind due; Haryana Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 2016; Haryana Civil Services (Assured Career Progression) Rules, 2016; regular satisfactory service; absence from 20.01.2015 to 08.10.2015 not counted for ACP; order dated 20.02.2025 Annexure P-12; order dated 27.03.2017 Annexure P-5; writ of certiorari; writ petition dismissed.
What did the court decide?
Since the petitioner was on extra ordinary leave during the period of absence (20.01.2015 to 08.10.2015), she cannot be taken to have rendered the regular satisfactory service that is the essential requirement for benefit of the ACP scale under the Haryana Civil Services (Assured Career Progression) Rules, 2016.