CO129-577-9 Badan Singh- petitions that he should be considered for promotion 2-11-1939 - 9-1-1940 — Page 17

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reason for promotion being denied to him) he could only suspect

was, on the Committee's part, a failure to act in accordance

with the generally accepted principles of British justice;

13. That as his request for information as to the grounds on

which Mr. Carrie and this Committee decided not to recommend his

promotion, and advised that clerks junior to him should be promoted

over his head, has been refused, and as he is anxious that these

reasons should now be placed before You for Your information,

Your petitioner is requesting that, in addition to the copy of

his Confidential Report Card referred to in 5 above, complete

copies of the minute or letter of the Honourable Director of

his Public Works forwarding my letter of 8th February, 1939, to the

Honourable Colonial Secretary, and all subsequent minutes in

his personal file, be forwarded to You with this Petition ;

14. That Your petitioner's reason for requesting that he be

informed of the grounds on which he had been passed over was

that he felt certain that, on his excellent record of service,

there was only one matter that could have been held against him,

and that, should it prove to be that one matter, he proposed to

appeal forthwith to You against such a travesty of British

justice;

15. That in case that one matter was indeed resurrected after

a lapse of six years (in the face of Your petitioner's excellent

record of service during those six years and the fact that he

had been deemed worthy of, and had been awarded, the Coronation

Medal in 1937) he is also requesting that all correspondence

relating to the charges brought against him in 1933 by Mr. W.J.

Carrie, then Assistant Colonial Treasurer, be forwarded with

this Petition for Your personal consideration;

16. That Your petitioner sincerely regrets that it is necessary

to burden You with this correspondence, and to make the special

request that this Petition be submitted for Your personal

consideration (his regret is all the greater as Your time must