Close relative APAR not to be written by the SPOs/SSPOs

2.10 As a corollary to the need for maintaining objectivity by a Reporting and Reviewing Officer, care should be taken to ensure that a close relative of an officer is not posted under the direct charge of that officer. When such a situation becomes inescapable, it should not be allowed to continue beyond the barest minimum time necessary. In such a situation, the officer concerned should abstain from writing the Report on the Government servant who is his close relative and instead, the Reviewing Officer should take on the role of the Reporting Officer. If in a rare case, the Reviewing Officer is also closely related to the Government servant reported upon, the role of the Reviewing Officer will have to be taken by the Officer superior to him. 

(Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms O.M. No. 21011/3/78-Estt.(A) dated the 31st May, 1978.)