Constitutional Law – Equality before Law – Challenge to Recruitment Notification – Petitioners, aspiring candidates for Tamil Nadu Combined Civil Services (Group-IV), challenged the notification requiring a Tamil language eligibility-cum-scoring test for selection, alleging it discriminated against non-Tamil medium students and contravened the Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Cond...
Service Law - Promotion - Educational Qualification and ACRs - Petition challenging promotions of respondent No.2 on grounds of lacking requisite educational qualifications and procedural improprieties in ACR considerations - Court finds respondent No.2 lacked qualifications for feeder cadre posts, including Private Secretary and Assistant Registrar - Petitioner's ACRs not communicated as per ...
Labour Law – Implementation of Wage Board Award – Applicability of Exemption Clause – The appellant challenged the enforcement of the Majithia Wage Board Award, which mandated revised wages for newspaper employees. The primary contention was that the appellant was exempt from making such payments due to “heavy cash losses” incurred in the preceding three financial yea...
Pension Dispute – Excess Payment Recovery – Challenged through Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus – Petitioner challenged government order demanding recovery of excess pension payments alleging no opportunity for representation was given and asserting recovery as arbitrary due to lack of any misrepresentation or fault on part of the pensioner – High Court set aside recovery or...
Service Law – Trifurcation of Directorate General of Security (DGS) – Reorganization and Pay Parity – Petition challenging the Central Administrative Tribunal’s order directing resolution of service condition disparities among ministerial staff post-trifurcation – Tribunal’s directive to devise a package and rectify lacunae affirmed – Relief limited to add...
Service Law - Employee Service – Counting of work-charge service for proficiency step-up – Dispute regarding whether service rendered on work-charge basis prior to regularization should be counted for granting proficiency step-up – Reference to relevant instructions dated 1.12.1988 (Annexure P-1) and clarificatory letter dated 1.9.1989 (Annexure P-2) – Contrasting views in ...
Administrative Law - Doctrine of Pleasure - Validity of Removal – Writ Petition challenging removal from the post of Chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Commission – Petitioner contended removal was arbitrary, capricious, and without following principles of natural justice – Respondent argued removal was per the doctrine of pleasure as stated in Section 4 of the Karnataka ...
Civil Appeal – Termination of service – Grant of back wages – Appellant-State challenges the judgment allowing the respondent's appeal against the termination of his services – Respondent's services were terminated without following proper procedure – Trial Court set aside the termination but declined to grant back wages – First Appellate Court granted b...
Labour Law - Industrial Dispute - Reference under Section 10(1)(c) and 10(2A) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - Pending Miscellaneous Cases - Labour Court Adjudication – High Court upheld the reference made by the State Government to the Labour Court regarding the dismissal of the respondent-workman despite the pendency of Miscellaneous Cases under Section 33(2)(b) and Section 33-A before t...
Companies Act – Appeal under Section 483 against Rejection of Statutory Interest Claim by Workmen – Jharkhand High Court upheld the decision of the Single Judge rejecting the workmen’s claim for statutory interest under Rule 156 of the Companies (Court) Rules, 1959 – The Court found no error in the previous order as the claim for interest was not raised or adjudicated upon ...