New Delhi, Sep 28, 2025

The Delhi High Court has set aside the compulsory retirement of a North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) engineer, reiterating that the entire service record of an officer must be considered before passing such an order.

“Before passing an order of compulsory retirement, the entire service record of the officer has to be taken into consideration, including the grading in the ACRs. The performance of the officer in the later years is of greater relevance than reliance on old and historical punishments,” observed a Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Madhu Jain.

Quashing the 2019 order compulsorily retiring petitioner Suraj Prakash, the Justice Chawla-led Bench said, “Once the ACRs continuously record the integrity of the officer as ‘Beyond Doubt’ and grade him as

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