Category: Service

Service Matters

Work Charged Establishment Revised Service Conditions (Repealing) Rules, 2013 – Rule 5(v) – Pension – after rendering of service as work charged for number of years and thereafter when their services have been regularized, they cannot be denied the pension on the ground that they have not completed the qualifying service for pension – That is why, the service rendered as work charged is to be counted and/or considered for the purpose of qualifying service for pension

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH UDAY PRATAP THAKUR AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah and C.T. Ravikumar,…

Service Matters

HELD appellants had already got three promotions before they got themselves transferred to Kerala University. The salary drawn by them of the higher post was protected – special class of employees were already drawing salary of the higher post which in terms of the policy for inter-university transfer was protected, though they were placed at the bottom of the seniority at the entry level.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH SMT. SASIKALA DEVI. P — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Abhay S. Oka and Rajesh Bindal,…

Service Matters

By the very nature of the science that they practice and with the advancement of science and modern medical technology, the emergency duty that Allopathy doctors are capable of performing and the trauma care that they are capable of providing, cannot be performed by Ayurved doctors – both categories of doctors are certainly not performing equal work to be entitled to equal pay

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH STATE OF GUJARAT AND OTHERS ETC. — Appellant Vs. DR. P. A. BHATT AND OTHERS ETC. — Respondent ( Before : V. Ramasubramanian and…

Service Matters

Appellants are entitled to financial upgradation under the ACP Scheme on completion of requisite regular service ignoring the higher qualification prescribed for the next higher post as grant of such benefit is not actually a promotion but only financial upgradation and if the higher qualification is insisted it would frustrate the purpose of the entire scheme.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH AMRESH KUMAR SINGH AND OTHERS .ETC.ETC. — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS .ETC.ETC. — Respondent ( Before : B.R. Gavai and…

Constitution of India, 1950 – Article 14 – Penalty imposed must be commensurate with the gravity of the misconduct, and that any penalty disproportionate to the gravity of the misconduct would be violative of Article 14 of the Constitution – In the armed forces of the Union, including the paramilitary forces, utmost discipline, unity of command et al are the sine qua non – That said, the doctrine of proportionality still holds the field.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH B. S. HARI COMMANDANT — Appellant Vs. UNION OF INDIA & ORS. R1: UNION OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS R2: DIRECTOR GENERAL, BORDER…