The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Haryana government to pay arrears with nine per cent annual interest to a former revenue department employee who was denied monetary benefits despite being granted retrospective promotion more than two decades ago. The court held that the State had implicitly accepted the employee’s rightful claim but failed to give him the consequential financial benefits he was entitled to.

Justice Sandeep Moudgil passed the order while allowing a petition filed by Adesh Kumar, who had challenged a 1998 order of the Ambala Deputy Commissioner that promoted several of his juniors to the post of Assistant Wasil Baqi Nawis without considering his name. Kumar had sought quashing of the order and a direction to grant him promotion from the same date as his j

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