New Delhi, April 14 -- The Supreme Court has observed that an employee cannot be denied promotion solely because a prescribed degree is absent when the applicable rules themselves provide for relaxation in favour of employees possessing special experience, competence, or seniority.
The apex court set aside a Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment that denied promotion to a cooperative society employee, holding that the refusal to grant relaxation in educational qualification despite granting similar relaxation to others amounted to discriminatory treatment violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution.
A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N V Anjaria observed that "discrimination is the other name of injustice" and emphasised t...