“Removing Dead Wood”: CJI Upholds Compulsory Retirement of CRPF staff for Assaulting Colleague

CJI Chandrachud led bench Yesterday (May 8th), said compulsory retirement is another form of terminating the service of an employee and is a well-accepted method of removing dead wood from the cadre without affecting his entitlement for retirement benefits, if otherwise payable.

Supreme Court Seeks Centre’s Response on PIL for Inclusion of Palliative Care in National Health Programme

In The Supreme Court Today (March 7th), a bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud requested the Centre’s response on Thursday regarding a PIL seeking direction to authorities for the inclusion of palliative care in the national health programme to support terminally-ill individuals.