[ High Courts ]
The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that an employer cannot appoint an independent inquiry officer for sexual harassment allegations, quashing a university professor's termination order and directing reinstatement.
2026-05-22 · 8 min read
[ High Courts ]
Gujarat High Court holds that primary teachers in Botad District are entitled to actual arrears of first higher grade pay from date of entitlement, rejecting the State's notional-treatment restriction under the 2022 Government Resolution.
2026-05-21 · 7 min read
[ 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
[ Supreme Court ]
A Supreme Court bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar dismisses a waitlisted candidate's claim to a fresh posting after he refused to join his originally recommended college.
2026-05-20 · 8 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy quashed CDI Case No.12/1998 after 28 years of unexplained departmental inaction, directing release of all retiral benefits to a 90-year-old retired employee within three months, with 6% interest on any delayed payment.
2026-05-20 · 7 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A Division Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih sets aside High Court directions to convene a DPC under executive instructions displaced by the 2021 Rules.
2026-05-20 · 8 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R. Mahadevan set aside Rs 25 lakh personal cost on a Tamil Nadu education official who acted on a then-valid government order restricting Group D recruitment.
2026-05-18 · 5 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
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A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and S.V.N. Bhatti held that IIIT Allahabad could not impose a contractual appointment on a candidate selected through a regular recruitment process without recording any reason.
2026-05-14 · 7 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
[ High Courts ]
A division bench of the Jharkhand High Court, led by Chief Justice M.S. Sonak with Justice Rajesh Shankar, has dismissed twenty Letters Patent Appeals filed by SC, ST, BC-I and BC-II candidates who failed to enter the particulars of their State-format caste certificates in JPSC and JSSC online application forms by the prescribed cut-off date and were consequently treated as general-category candidates.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Jai Kumar Pillai of the Indore bench has set aside the suspension of an Indore SHO who registered an FIR naming an IAS officer's farmhouse as the venue of a large gambling raid, finding the order arbitrary, devoid of prima facie material, and tainted by malice in law.
2026-05-12 · 5 min read