Service Law – Pay Parity – Educational Qualification – Writ petition challenging different pay scales for graduate and non-graduate clerks – Petitioner, a non-graduate clerk, sought higher pay scale granted to graduate clerks – Held, educational qualification constitutes a valid basis for different pay scales – Classification between graduate and non-g...
Service Law – Increase in Punishment – Show-Cause Notice – Writ petition challenging enhancement of punishment by the Appellate Authority – Petitioner, a Veterinary Livestock Development Assistant, punished for absenteeism – Appellate Authority increased punishment without serving show-cause notice – Held, as per Rule 11, Appellate Authority must issue show-caus...
Service Law - Recruitment Process - Petition under Article 226 - Petitioners appeared in CET for Group-C posts, including VLDA - Failed to achieve qualifying marks - Sought relaxation from CET requirement for skill/written exam - High Court dismisses petition - Requirement of eligibility test upheld as essential to gauge candidates' capability - Petitioners cannot seek exclusion of VLDA posts ...
Service Law – Assured Career Progression (ACP) – Regular Satisfactory Service – Writ petition seeking modification of the date of grant of first ACP from March 1, 2019, to June 25, 2016. The petitioner contended that he completed eight years of regular satisfactory service in 2016 and was entitled to the ACP from that date. Held, imposition of fines as punishments does not consti...
Service Law – Dismissal from Service – Misconduct – Regular Second Appeal challenging the Appellate Court’s decision that set aside the Trial Court’s judgment favoring the appellant and upheld his dismissal from service. The appellant, a Constable in the CRPF, was dismissed for misbehaving with a senior lady officer and being under the influence of liquor during duty ...
Service Law - Family Pension - Widow of Deceased Employee - Petition under Article 226 - Second wife denied full family pension - First wife predeceased employee - Note 1 of Rule 6.17(4) invoked incorrectly - Rule applicable only if more than one widow survives - Only one widow at the time of employee’s death - Full pension granted to the petitioner - Petition allowed. [Paras 1-11]
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Service Law – Dismissal from Service – Natural Justice – Writ petition challenging dismissal from service for alleged bribery – Personal hearing conducted by a different officer than the one who passed the final order – Held, principles of natural justice mandate that the officer who hears must also decide – Successor officer had no occasion to hear the petition...
Service Law - Seniority - Deputationists vs. Direct Recruits - Continuous Service- Seniority - Continuous Service in Parent and Borrowing Departments – Letters Patent Appeal challenging the seniority list dated 31.03.2018 – Held: Seniority inter se of members of the service must be determined by the length of continuous service on any post in the service, including service rendered in ...
Service Law - Deputation - Requirement of Consent - Tripartite Agreement - Petition challenging deputation order directing petitioner to join as Private Secretary in the office of Lokayukta, Haryana—Deputation requires a tripartite agreement involving the parent department, borrowing authority, and the deputationist—Petitioner did not express willingness to proceed on deputation—...
Service Law - Retrospective Reduction in Salary - Re-designation – Held, the appellant cannot be re-designated to a post for which the revised consolidated remuneration is less than what she was already receiving. Recovery ordered by reducing the monthly remuneration of a contractual employee with retrospective effect is patently illegal. The order of the learned Single Judge is set aside. T...