No Candidate Can Be Denied MV Inspector Post For Lacking Experience In Non-Existent Petrol HGV/HPV Vehicles: Karnataka High Court

Censuring the irregularities in the recruitment process for Motor Vehicle Inspectors in the state, the Karnataka High Court has rapped the Public Service Commission and the Transport Department for acting unreasonably, and in a manner amounting to a 'travesty of justice'. [2026 LiveLaw(Kar) 407]The Division bench of Justices R Devdas and K Manmadha Rao noted that the authorities erred by...

Treating Employee As 'Fresh Appointee' After 42 Years Is Contrary To Constitutional Ethos: Patna High Court On Pay Cut Of Daily-Wage Worker

The Patna HC has held that treating a long-serving daily-wage employee as a “fresh appointee” at the fag end of his career, resulting in a reduction in his pay, requires reconsideration, particularly where similarly situated employees had been granted the benefit of earlier regularization.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Kumar Manish was hearing a writ petition filed by the petitioner, who...

Jharkhand High Court Extends Stay On Termination Of Employees Appointed Through Cancelled JPSC, JSSC Exams

As per PTI, the Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday extended the stay on termination of government employees whose appointments were affected by the cancellation of certain examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC).Justice Deepak Roshan was hearing a series of petitions filed by employees challenging the...

Rajasthan High Court Imposes ₹10,000 Costs On State For Forcing Employee To Litigate Over Name Correction

The Rajasthan High Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 10,000 on the State government, for failing to correct the name of an employee in the service records owing to their "impersonal and irresponsible" approach, and pushing her towards unnecessary litigation. “This Court cannot remain a mute spectator to such harassment. The Courts are already overburdened with genuine lis. If the State and...

Rajasthan High Court Upholds 10% Lifetime Pension Cut After Police Officials Fled Mob, Sub-Inspector Burnt Alive

The Rajasthan High Court has upheld the punishment of withholding 10% of the pension payable to three retired police officials for their lifetime, after finding them guilty of grave negligence in discharging their duties during a law-and-order situation that resulted in the death of a Sub-Inspector.Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that the disciplinary proceedings could continue after...

Pan-India Recruitment: Rajasthan High Court Says It Has Territorial Jurisdiction As Substantive Stages Were Conducted In State

The Rajasthan High Court has held that it has the territorial jurisdiction in matters relating to a recruitment process which was initiated for positions across India, and was conducted in various stages across the country, if substantive stages were also conducted in Rajasthan. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay K. Agarwal and Justice Inderjeet Singh further opined that apart from...

Special TET For In-Service Teachers Doesn't Confer Preference In Future Recruitment, Doesn't Violate Articles 14, 16: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the decision of the State of Uttar Pradesh to conduct a Special Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) for in-service teachers does not violate Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India. The Court held that the special examination only enables such teachers to acquire the qualification which the Supreme Court has declared mandatory for them, and confers...

'Mere Absence Not Always Willful': Patna High Court Quashes SBI Employee's Deemed Voluntary Resignation Over Medical Leave

The Patna High Court has held that mere absence from duty cannot, by itself, lead to a conclusion that an employee was wilfully or unauthorisedly absent, particularly where the absence is supported by medical records.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Harish Kumar was hearing a petition filed by an SBI officer challenging notices whereby he was treated as having voluntarily vacated his service...

Motor Accident Compensation Can't Be Based Solely On Basic Salary; Employment-Related Allowances Must Be Included: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that employment-related allowances forming part of a deceased employee's regular earnings must be taken into account while assessing his income for computation of motor accident compensation, and cannot be excluded merely because they are described as allowances.The bench of Justice Sanjeet Purohit observed that the assessment of income cannot be confined to...

Delay In Deciding Govt Servant's Plea Against Deemed Suspension After Release From Custody Indicates 'Malice In Law': Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that Rule 4(3)(b) of the U.P. Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1999 casts a mandatory obligation on the competent authority to take an express and conscious decision on the representation made by a Government servant against his deemed suspension after his release from custody. It held that deemed suspension does not lapse on its own...

Enhanced Gratuity For Consumer Federation Employees Operates Only From Statutory Amendment Date: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that employees of the Himachal Pradesh State Co-operative Marketing and Consumers Federation Limited (HIMFED) who retired before March 29, 2018 are not entitled to the enhanced gratuity ceiling of ₹20 lakh. The Court observed that since the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 was amended with effect from March 29, 2018, employees who had superannuated...

Unchallenged Order Directing Salary Payment Cannot Validate Appointment Based On Forged Approval: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an administrative order directing payment of salary confers no enforceable right to salary from the State exchequer, even where it was never challenged or set aside, if the approval order on which the appointment rests is later found to be forged. It held that the finality attaching to an administrative order is distinct from the legality of the...