Mumbai, Nov 19: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to grant an urgent hearing in a petition filed by former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede challenging the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order dismissing his plea last week.

Promotion Delay Cited as Reason for Urgency

Wankhede’s advocate sought urgent hearing stating that the officer’s promotion was downgraded due to the case. Officers of his batch were due for promotion and the departmental promotion committee is due to send the recommendations in December, said the advocate.

“Urgency in the matter is that this entire batch of 2008 IRS officers is due to be promoted to the level of commission in the month of December. Before that the departmental promotion committee is to send remarks to the cabinet committee, includi

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