LogIn to read judgment : Election – Departmental Promotion Committee – Recommended promotion – Imposition of Code of conduct in the State of Punjab imposed – Did not get the promotion – Attained the age of superannuation – No fault can be found in the act of the respondents, which would indicate that the petitioners missed promotions to the posts of Principal due to them – Once the DPC recommendations did not attain finality so as to give right to the petitioners to claim promotions before they had attained the age of superannuation, no claim can be made by them with respect to the promotions which have been effected by the respondents subsequent to their retirement.