Supreme Court of India

The Secretary, Sh. A. P. D.jain Pathshala & Ors. v. Shivaji Bhagwat More & Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 6 S.C.R. 1173
Bench R. V. Raveedran and A. K. Patnaik JJ.
Decided 4 July 2011

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What the Court ordered

We hold that constitution of a Grievance Committee as a public adjudicatory forum, whose decisions are binding on the parties to the disputes, by an executive order of the Government is impermissible.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Shikshan Sevak Scheme 2000 (in State of Maharashtra): Shikshan Sevak - Termination of services of - c Jurisdiction of Grievance Redressa/ Committee - HELD: Grievance Committee cannot be a qliasi-judicial forum nor can its decisions be made final ·and binding on parties in disputes relating to Shikshan Sevaks - Any order or opinion of the Grievance Committee on a complaint or grievance 0 submitted by a Shikshan Sevak would be only recommendation to the Stat13 Government (Education Department) for taking further action - The direction of the High Court that when the grievance committee holds

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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