Confidential Report

Confidential report, a confidential report is intended to be general assessment of work performed by a Government servant subordinate to the reporting authority, that such reports are maintained for the purpose of serving as data of comparative merit when questions of promotion, confirmation, etc. arise. They also show that such reports are not ordinarily to contain specific incidents upon which assessments are made except in cases where as a result of any specific incident a censure or a warning is issued and when such warning is by an order to be kept in the personal file of the Government servant, R.L. Butail v. Union of India, (1971) 2 SCR 55: (1970) 2 SCC 876 (880). [CCS (Classification Central and Appeal) Rules 1965, R. 11]