Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
Legitimate Expectation Doctrine | Bombay HC Protects Employees from Arbitrary Cancellation of Near-Complete Promotion Process Under PMC Service Rules 2014
Bombay High Court ruled that employees acquire a legitimate expectation under Articles 14 and 16 when a promotion process governed by extant rules nears completion. The Court directed Pune Municipal Corporation to finalize the promotions within three weeks, reinforcing that administrative arbitrariness cannot override procedural fairness in service law.