Supreme Court of India

C.N. Malla v. State of Jammu and Kashmir & Ors.

Neutral citation
Reported as [2009] 13 S.C.R. 479
Bench Tarun Chatterjee and R.M. Lodha JJ.
Decided 24 August 2009

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

1 Supreme Court bench has cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that before terminatfon of D services of a Government servant, the procedure established under the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 19.56 as well as the provisions of Section 126 of the Constitution of the State· have to be followed.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Service Law - Back wages - Award of - Employee absent unauthorisedly - Dismissal from service - Set aside by Single Judge of High Court and award of full back wages c from date of filing writ petition upto date of superannuation - Set aside by Division Bench - On appeal, held: Direction to pay back wages in its entirety is not automatic consequent ; upon declaration of dismissal order bad in law - Court is required to exe;cise discretion reasonably and judiciously - .J. Division Bench refused back wages on the ground of unauthorised leave which was not established - Division Bench also held

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.