Sikkim High Court Dismisses Lawyers' Plea Challenging COI Requirement For Judicial Service Recruitment, Leaves Constitutional Validity Open

The Sikkim High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by practising advocates challenging the eligibility conditions prescribed for recruitment to five entry-level posts in the Sikkim Judicial Service, including the requirement of possessing a Certificate of Identification (COI) and a valid Local Employment Card.Chief Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque held that: “This writ petition was filed...

Jharkhand High Court Sets Aside JSSC Recruitment Cancellation Following Protests, Appointees' Services To Depend On Final Outcome Of Litigation

The Jharkhand HC has quashed the State Government's notification dated August 18, 2026, cancelling the recruitment conducted by the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) pursuant to Advertisement No. 10 of 2023. The Court held that the State's decision was contrary to earlier orders of the High Court and Supreme Court concerning the same recruitment process. However, it clarified that...

Meghalaya High Court Gives State 4 Months To Process Terminal Benefits For Widow Of Employee Who Died Without Receiving Dues

The Meghalaya High Court has directed the State Government to process the release of terminal benefits to the widow of a deceased Public Health Engineering Department employee, who died in 2020 without receiving his retirement dues. The Court observed that although the employee's superannuation on January 31, 2016, had been acknowledged by the State, there was no material to establish that...

Tripura High Court Directs NIT Agartala To Pay Over ₹85 Lakh Towards Pension, Leave Salary And Gratuity To Former Employee

The Tripura High Court has directed the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, to pay over ₹85 lakh towards pro-rata pension contribution, leave salary contribution and gratuity to a former employee, holding that the Institute could not deny him service benefits contrary to its own memorandums recognising his past service.Justice Biswajit Palit remarked that: “Whatever benefit...

Placement Agency Hiring No Ground To Deny Minimum Pay Scale To Class-IV Employees: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that employees engaged through placement agencies, working on various Class-IV posts, are entitled to get benefit of minimum of the pay-scale applicable to Class-IV employees of the government. The bench of Justice Kuldeep Mathur relied upon an order passed by a coordinate bench in Dhariya v State of Rajasthan, where in relation to similarly situated...

Voluntary Discharge From Service Entails Forfeiture Of Past Service, Pension Benefit Cannot Be Invoked: Meghalaya High Court

The Meghalaya High Court has dismissed a pension claim filed by a former Assam Rifles Rifleman who was discharged from service on his own request after rendering over 13 years of service, holding that voluntary resignation entails forfeiture of past service under Rule 26(1) of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. The Court clarified that an employee cannot invoke Rule 49(2),...

Intervening Termination Won't Disentitle Employees From Regularisation If They Complete 10 Years' Service: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed the special appeal filed by the State against a single judge's order directing regularization of the respondents, opining that an abrupt termination of the respondents by the appellants in the past was a mechanism adopted by the department to deprive employees from the fruits of regularization. The division bench of Justice Vinit Kumar Mathur and...

Teachers Of UP Sports Colleges Society Not 'Public Servants', Can't Approach State Public Services Tribunal: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that teachers in the sports colleges run by the U.P. Sports Colleges Society are not “public servants” under Section 2(b) of the Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Tribunals) Act, 1976, and that their claim petitions are not maintainable before the U.P. State Public Service Tribunal.Section 2(b) of the Act, 1976 covers a person in the service or pay of the...

Police Personnel Can't Face Disciplinary Action Merely For Seeking Permission To Form Association: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court recently held that an employee submitting a representation to his higher officials seeking permission to form an association would not amount to misconduct warranting departmental enquiry against the employee. Justice Krishnaswamy Govindarajan observed that an employee has a right to submit a representation and it is for the administrative authorities to...

Transferred High Court Judge May Opt To Avail Retirement Benefits From Parent High Court: Orissa High Court

A judge who has devoted years to public service should be able to retire with dignity, and without anxiety over basic necessities, Court said.

Poor Class 10th Results Alone Can't Justify Penalising Teacher Without Finding Of Misconduct: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside the penalty imposed on a government teacher over poor Class 10th results in Mathematics, opining that there were no specific allegations against the petitioner that the results dropped due to commission or omission on his part. The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that there might be several reasons for which the results remained below the...

Missing Interview Records: Allahabad High Court Directs KGMU To Calculate Average Marks And Declare Candidate's Result

The Allahabad High Court has directed King George's Medical University (KGMU) to calculate average interview marks from the surviving records of the same selection if the petitioner's marks cannot be verified, and then declare the result of her candidature.The Court also observed that a recruitment process, once undertaken and candidates have participated in its prescribed stages, must be...