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Category: Service

Service Matters
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The Respondent would not have any right to get any further advantage in the nature of higher salary or a higher pay scale, especially when nothing from his salary was being deducted on account of his getting pension or perquisites from the earlier employer – The Tribunal was absolutely right in coming to the conclusion that the pay fixation under the order was correct because a mistake was committed in the earlier pay fixation – Appeal stands disposed of.

May 13, 2017 sclaw

  (2013) 11 AD 499 : (2014) 140 FLR 7 : (2013) 14 JT 203 : (2014) LabIC 1564 : (2014) 1 LLN 17 : (2013) 13 SCALE 393 :…

Service Matters
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Process of selection – The appellants have challenged before the court the alleged arbitrary decision of the Government in conducting a special recruitment test against the Rules and Guidelines issued for the recruitment of Computer Instructors and also by altering the minimum qualifying marks from 50% to 35% so as to absorb a larger number of candidates of its choice

May 12, 2017 sclaw

(2009) 9 JT 70 : (2009) 9 SCALE 319 : (2009) 14 SCC 517 SUPREME COURT OF INDIA T. NADU COMPUTER SC B.ED. G.T. WELF. SOCIETY — Appellant Vs. HIGHER…

Service Matters
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Employer has sacrosanct duty to act in terms of sacred objectives of social and economic justice – Respondents have not been absorbed by JHALCO despite JHALCO having absorbed more than 300 employees of BHALCO – Both States directed to make payments within stipulated time – Both States shall compute salary component after granting benefit of pay revision which has been extended to other employees

May 11, 2017 sclaw

  (2014) 3 AD 279 : (2013) 15 JT 218 : (2013) 14 SCALE 133 : (2014) 2 SCC 114 : (2014) 1 SCC(L&S) 321 : (2014) 1 SCJ 420…

Service Matters
Service

Appellant, a professor in Physics was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University – Immediately another order passed rescinding earlier order as he had been facing a criminal case – This order had been passed immediately and much before the date on which appointment could become effective – There was no necessity to give him an opportunity

May 6, 2017 sclaw

  AIR 1999 SC 849 : (1998) 8 JT 344 : (1998) 6 SCALE 378 : (1999) 1 SCC 422 : (1999) SCC(L&S) 229 : (1998) 3 SCR 165 Supp…

Service Matters
Service

A junior officer belonging to Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, by operation of Article 16(1) read with Atricle 16(4) and 16(4A) would steal a march over his erstwhile seniors in the lower cadre and get promotion – The principle of reservation in promotions would be applicable where the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are not adequately represented in promotional posts

Apr 30, 2017 sclaw

  (1996) 3 AD 313 : (1996) 73 FLR 986 : (1996) 3 JT 439 : (1996) 3 SCALE 44 : (1996) 5 SCC 167 : (1996) 3 SCR 266…

Service Matters
Service

Vacancies of drivers – The respondent was initially appointed as a daily-wager in Guntur Municipality. After completion of 5 years of service as NMR he was regularized. It is the claim of the respondent that during this period he was working as a driver and, therefore, after regularisation as a Class IV employee he should be assigned the duties and the pay scale of driver

Apr 30, 2017 sclaw

  (1998) 8 SCC 380 : (1998) SCC(L&S) 1591 SUPREME COURT OF INDIA COMMISSIONER, GUNTUR MUNICIPALITY — Appellant Vs. B. CHRISTUDASU — Respondent ( Before : S. P. Kurdukar, J;…

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Service

Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Special Provisions) Act, 2010 — Section 3(b) — Exclusion of employees appointed on academic arrangement basis from regularization — Classification held unconstitutional — Section 3(b) lacks intelligible differentia and rational nexus to the object of the Act — Denial of regularization solely based on nomenclature is impermissible under Article 14 of the Constitution where duties, tenure, and conditions of service are similar to ad hoc or contractual appointees.

Mar 15, 2026 sclaw
C P C

Adverse Possession — Claiming title by adverse possession against the State/Union Government is not permissible, irrespective of the duration of possession — Such perfection of rights is not recognized against the government.

Mar 15, 2026 sclaw
Cr P C

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — High Court quashed proceedings against sister-in-law on ground of general and omnibus allegations, but declined relief to father-in-law and mother-in-law (appellants) — Allegations against appellants were similarly general and omnibus, with no specific role or overt act attributed to them — Delay in lodging FIR, coupled with lack of specific allegations, suggested possibility of FIR being a counter-blast to divorce petition filed by husband — High Court erred in applying different standards to similarly situated accused — Proceedings against appellants quashed.

Mar 15, 2026 sclaw
Companies Act Corporate

Companies Act, 2013 — Section 66 — Reduction of Share Capital — Procedural Fairness — Minority Shareholders — Valuation of Shares — Non-disclosure of valuation report and fairness report in notice for general meeting — Held, not a “tricky notice” as statutory requirement for valuation report not mandated under Section 66 — Valuation by a related agency — Held, not a conflict of interest where internal auditor is independent and valuation agency follows accepted norms — Discount for Lack of Marketability (DLOM) — Held, applicable to illiquid shares, especially in absence of oppression — Share price fixation — Held reasonable based on market value of subsidiary, past offers, and rights issue.

Mar 15, 2026 sclaw