Rules Can't Be Changed After Recruitment Process Substantially Concludes: Patna High Court Quashes Cancellation Of Teachers' District Allotment

The Patna High Court has held that statutory amendments cannot be applied retrospectively to alter the substantive conditions of a recruitment process that had already substantially concluded under the unamended rules. The Court held that once local body teachers had qualified the competency test, secured district allotment based on merit and preferences, completed counselling and...

CISF Personnel Carrying 'Spy Pen' Camera While On Duty At Sensitive Location Is Serious Misconduct: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that a member of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) found carrying a spy pen camera with a memory card while on duty at a sensitive installation cannot seek leniency merely because the device was not used. The Court restored the disciplinary punishment imposed on the constable, observing that members of a disciplined force entrusted with...

Recruitment Begins With Advertisement, Not Approval Of Appointment; Subsequent Selection Law Doesn't Govern It: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a recruitment process commences on the publication of the advertisement, and not at the later stage of approval of appointment. It held that a law brought into force after the advertisement does not govern a process already set in motion.It further held that where a new Act comes into force after the advertisement but before the selection is finalised,...

Interest On Wrongly Withheld Gratuity Should Be Recovered From Erring Officer's Salary: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has directed that where an employee is found to have been entitled to gratuity that was wrongly withheld and paid only later along with interest, the interest component shall be recovered from the salary of the officer who wrongly rejected the claim. It further held that proceedings shall be initiated against the erring officer even after his retirement, where the...

Rajasthan High Court Directs Release Of Retiral Benefits To 81-Year-Old Former District Judge; Slaps ₹1 Lakh Costs On State, HC Admin For Delay

The Rajasthan High Court has imposed Rs. 1,00,000 costs on the Department of Law and Legal Affairs, the High Court administration, Chief Accounts Officer (Directorate of Estate), and Director (Pension and Pensioners Welfare), for withholding the retirement benefits of a former trial court judge, who retired in 1999.The division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and...

Orissa High Court Grants Relief To Selected Legislative Assembly Reporters, Says Can't Cancel Appointment Arbitrarily When Posts Are Vacant

The Orissa High Court has held that the State cannot arbitrarily deny appointment to selected candidates in a public service and it is liable to show reason for non-consideration of their candidatures, especially when large number of posts remain vacant in that cadre. [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 77]Allowing a writ petition filed by two candidates whose selection as Reporters in the Odisha...

Accident Compensation | No Presumption On Govt Doctor's Having Private Practice; Burden On Claimant To Show Earnings: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that there is no presumption that a Government doctor has a private medical practice or earns additional income therefrom. The Court observed that the burden lies upon the claimant to establish, by cogent evidence, that he was actually engaged in private practice and earning income from it before claiming compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act on...

Experience In Govt Hospitals Can't Be Ignored Merely Because Salary Was Paid By NGO Under PPP Model: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that experience gained by rendering medical services in Government Health institutions, and corresponding benefits, could not be denied to the concerned persons merely because their salary was routed through a charitable trust under an administrative arrangement approved by the State Government. The bench of Justice Nupur Bhati observed that the mode of...

Technical Shortfall In One Month's Wages Under S.33(2)(b) ID Act Can't Shield Employee Guilty Of Corruption, Forgery: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that a technical shortfall in payment of one month's wages under the proviso to Section 33(2)(b) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, cannot be used as a shield by an employee found guilty of grave misconduct such as corruption and forgery. The Court observed that the protection under Section 33(2)(b) is intended to soften the rigours of dismissal and not to...

'Highly Contemptuous': Jharkhand High Court Slams Officer For Terming Benefits Given Under Court Order As 'Wrongly Granted'

The Jharkhand High Court has held that it was “highly contemptuous” for a Regional Deputy Director of Education to state in a counter affidavit that certain ACP benefits had been “wrongly granted” to an employee despite those very benefits having been directed by a coordinate Bench of the High Court and subsequently implemented by the department. The Court also held that denying...

Primary Stakeholders, Functionaries Are Women: Telangana High Court Upholds Female Reservation For Anganwadi Supervisor Post

The Telangana High Court has upheld the State Government's order reserving posts of Extension Officers Grade-I and Grade-II (Anganwadi Supervisors) exclusively for women, holding that the policy is a valid exercise of the State's power under Article 15(3) of the Constitution. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 101]The Court observed that the beneficiaries of the Integrated Child Development Services...

Compulsory Retirement For 22-Day Unauthorised Absence Disproportionate: Orissa High Court Grants Relief To Disabled Railway Employee

The Orissa High Court has ordered 50% back wages along with retiral benefits to a disabled former railway employee who was compulsorily retired from service in 2012 for proceeding on an unsanctioned leave of “twenty-two and half days” to attend her ailing mother. [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 74]Finding the punishment to be severely disproportionate to the alleged indiscipline, the Division Bench...