[ High Courts ]
Justice Ritesh Kumar held that the State's Pay Verification Cell could not slash a retired university employee's pay scale without notice, and directed refund of Rs 22,08,744 adjusted from his post-retirement dues.
2026-05-21 · 7 min read
[ High Courts ]
The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore set aside two termination orders and a demotion order, holding that stigma-based dismissal without a formal departmental inquiry violates natural justice.
2026-05-20 · 6 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and Vijay Bishnoi holds that Regulation 10 of Canara Bank’s 1976 Regulations gives management discretion, not an obligation, to hold common disciplinary proceedings against co-accused officers.
2026-05-16 · 7 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice C. Jayachandran held that a District Collector cannot use Section 30(2)(v) of the Disaster Management Act to issue a stop memo against a private developer, and that a 2-to-3 metre dip in groundwater does not satisfy the emergency threshold under Section 26(2).
2026-05-12 · 4 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench led by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu, applying the Wednesbury test, found a reasonably palpable apprehension of political vendetta in the timing of a PPCB raid on Trident Limited and directed that no coercive steps be taken without first granting the company a 30-day window to cure deficiencies.
2026-05-12 · 4 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has partly allowed about 100 writ petitions filed by Zilla Parishad employees, quashing suspension orders, FIR proposals and salary-stoppage actions, while permitting the State's State-wide medical re-verification of disability certificates to proceed as a strictly regulated one-time measure.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read