Supreme Court of India

F.R. Jesuratnam v. Union of India & Others

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Reported as [1982] 1 S.C.R. 40
Decided 22 July 1981

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In the result he was cashiered from service and also sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for six months.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

Right to reinstatement to a post which is subsequently abolished due to the death of the project incharge-Even though the vires of the termination order, which was anterior to the closing of the project, is in issue, Supreme Court can adopt "non-liquet'' and decide the case based on the subsequent events. The appellant, a commissioned officer in the Indian Air-Force, on a General Court Martial was cashiered and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprison­ ment for six years. Later the Central Government remitted the unexpired por· tion of the punishment of rigorous imprisonment. Subsequently, he

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