High Court Cannot Rewrite Terms Of State's Compassionate Appointment Policy: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

29 Jan 2019 9:50 AM IST

“The High Court has virtually re-written the terms of the policy and has issued a direction to the State to consider applications which do not fulfill the terms of the policy. This is impermissible.”

The Supreme Court has observed that a High Court, in the exercise of judicial review under Article 226 of the Constitution, cannot re-write the terms of the compassionate appointment policy formulated by the state. The bench comprising Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Justice Hemant Gupta was considering state's appeal against the Himachal Pradesh High Court judgment which held...

High Court Cannot Rewrite Terms Of State's Compassionate Appointment Policy: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

“The High Court has virtually re-written the terms of the policy and has issued a direction to the State to consider applications which do not fulfill the terms of the policy. This is impermissible.”

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