The Gujarat High Court has upheld the dismissal from service of a Senior Civil Judge, holding that her conduct over an accommodation dispute and her letters to the Chief Justice amounted to serious misconduct. The Division Bench dismissed her writ petition.
The Supreme Court has held that a government servant cannot claim an inter-district transfer as a matter of right merely because of separation from family, setting aside a contempt order against the Basic Education Board in a woman teacher’s case. The Court stressed that the education system is primarily for students.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld the State’s guest faculty honorarium cap of Rs 50,000 a month, holding that guest faculty in government colleges have no vested right to regularisation, but has directed the State to offer displaced guest faculty a position at the nearest place where a post in their subject is available. […]
The Rajasthan High Court has rejected a doctor’s plea to retain his lien on two government posts while pursuing higher studies, saying he was trying to sail in two boats at the same time. Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed a writ petition by a government doctor who sought an extension of joining time […]
Refusing to interfere with a 10% lifetime pension cut imposed on three retired police officials who left the spot of a violent protest in 2011, after which a Sub-Inspector was attacked by a mob and died, the Rajasthan High Court held that the Disciplinary Authority had found grave negligence and had complied with the disciplinary […]
Thirty-two years as a peon, then nearly ten years waiting for a pension. The Supreme Court has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government over the retired peon’s pension delay, calling pension a deferred payment for services already rendered and not a bounty or charity. New Delhi: Shocked that the Uttar Pradesh government had not paid […]
Can a retired worker be refused the annual increment after regularisation because he began as a daily wager? The Supreme Court has answered no, and has ordered enhanced pension for retired Gujarat Irrigation Department workers. New Delhi: Setting aside a Gujarat High Court Division Bench ruling that had denied retired skilled workers of the State […]
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 […]
The Allahabad High Court has held that Rule 4(3)(b) of the U.P. Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1999 places a mandatory obligation on the competent authority to take an express decision on a representation against deemed suspension made after release from custody, and that continuing the suspension beyond release must rest on a conscious […]