Indian Administrative Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955

Parmeshw ar Prasad, a Bihar Statistical Service officer, was recommended for appointment to the IAS cadre by selection under the IAS (Appointment by Selection) Regulations, 1956. The State Scrutiny Committee failed to hold meetings for short‑listing candidates for 1994‑95 and 1995‑96, and in 1996 his name was rejected …

The Union of India appealed against a decision of the Central Administrative Tribunal which had held that the State had miscalculated the 12‑month period for estimating IAS vacancies under Regulation 5(1) of the Indian Administrative Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955. The Tribunal ruled that the peri…

A Selection Committee was constituted to select officers of the Bihar Administrative Service for promotion to the Indian Administrative Service. The Committee considered 264 officers, including those above the age of 54 under the provisos of Regulation 5(3), and prepared a list of 51 suitable candidates. The Central Ad…

R. Tamilmani applied for appointment to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for the 1990 vacancy, being interviewed by a five‑member Selection Committee of the Union Public Service Commission. Three members rated him "outstanding" and two "very good", but the Committee refused to recommend his name, claiming there …

The respondents, officers of the Uttar Pradesh State Civil Service, claimed that the quinquennial cadre review of the IAS for Uttar Pradesh was due in April 2003 and that the review conducted in August 2005 should be given retrospective effect so that they could be considered for promotion. The Union of India and the C…

The appellant, a Tamil Nadu State Civil Service officer, challenged the promotion of the first respondent to the Indian Administrative Service, alleging that the State Government had illegally withheld the respondent’s Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) for five years and had dropped disciplinary proceedings against hi…

The case concerned the selection of two vacancies in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for non‑State Civil Service officers in 2014. Baidyanath Yadav (appellant) was recommended by the Department of Agriculture and subsequently selected by the UPSC, while Aditya Narayan Roy (respondent No.1) challenged the proces…

The Karnataka government constituted a Selection Committee to recommend non‑State Civil Service officers for promotion to the IAS. Unsuccessful candidates alleged that the Committee was improperly constituted, acted arbitrarily and with malafide intent, particularly pointing to the Chairman’s allotment of a residential…

Three officers of the Punjab State Civil Service claimed that they were superseded in the 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1983 IAS promotion Select Lists because junior officers were included while they were omitted, and that the Selection Committee failed to record reasons for supersession, violating Articles 14 and 16 and princ…

The appellants, direct recruits to the Karnataka Administrative Service, completed their probation on 14 July 1976 but were not formally confirmed until 1 January 1986, a delay of nearly ten years. Because of this undue delay, they were excluded from the 1983 select list for promotion to the Indian Administrative Servi…

P. Sivanandi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police recruited in 1985, was considered for promotion to the Indian Police Service in 1994‑95. His Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) for 1992‑93 were initially missing but later found, and the ACR for the period 01‑Apr‑1993 to 15‑Jul‑1993 was written after the prescribed time …