Supreme Court of India

Purushottam Kumar Jha v. Sta Te of Jharkhand and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 215
Bench Ruma Pal and C.K. Thakker JJ.
Decided 24 April 2006

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, in our opinion, the order dated 6th January, 2003 compulsorily retiring the appellant cannot be held illegal, unlawful or contrary to law and neither the Single Judge nor the Division Bench had E committed any error of law in dismissing the petition and the Letters Patent Appeal of the appellant.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000-Sections 72 and 74-Appointment of employee as a Clerk by erstwhile State of Bihar on compassionate grounds­ Transfer of employee to the State of Jharkand after bifurcation of the States- Employee protesting to do the work of a Clerk contending that he was originally appointed as Law Officer/Legal Assistant-Order of compulsory retirement passed against the employee by the State of Jharkand after holding disciplinary proceedings-Writ petition filed before High Court challenging the order-Employee contending that the State of Jharkhand has not power and

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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