Teachers who signed undertakings to refund benefits released by mistake cannot resist later demands to return them: recovery of excess pay is permissible in such cases, the Supreme Court has held while dismissing appeals by lecturers of the National Institute of Technology. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of appeals by teachers […]
Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu began the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Mulla Afroz preventive detention case with a tribute to Justice Datta’s late law clerk-cum-research associate, Ritwik Deswal, who passed away four days before his 27th birthday, and dedicated the judgment to his memory.
The Supreme Court has held that paying a senior employee less than a junior holding the same post, without any demonstrable difference in qualifications, recruitment, experience, responsibility or accountability, violates Article 14 and Article 39(d). It directed pay parity, arrears and interest, with the financial benefits to be released within three months.
An Anganwadi Sevika from Jalgaon was appointed a Supervisor in Nashik despite a rule requiring ten years’ experience in the same district, on the strength of a Divisional Commissioner’s erroneous clarification. The Supreme Court upheld the setting aside of her appointment three years on, holding that appointing an ineligible candidate is a fraud on the public even where the appointee concealed nothing and the fault lay with the authority.
The Supreme Court declined Mahua Moitra’s plea to appear virtually before the IO in a Facebook post FIR, with Justice Datta remarking, “Having taken the plunge into politics, you are afraid of eggs? The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra seeking permission to appear virtually before […]
