Supreme Court of India

Jugal Chandra Saikia v. State of Assam and Anr.

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Reported as [2003] 2 S.C.R. 615
Bench Shivaraj V. Patil and Arijit Pasayat JJ.
Decided 4 March 2003

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Service Law: Compulsory retirement-Order based on recommendation of Screening Committee-Held, High Court was right in upholding the order-Passing an order of compulsory retirement depends on subjective satisfaction of the competent authority, of course, on objective consideration-Unless it is shown that the order of compulsory retirement was passed arbitrarily and without application of mind or that ''llCh formation of opinion to retire compulsorily was based on no evidence or that the order of compulsory retirement was totally perverse, the Court cannot interfere. Baikunth Nath Das and Anr.

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