Supreme Court of India
R.C. Chandel v. High Court of M.P. & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, we are satisfied that the recommendation made by the High Court to the Government for compulsory retirement of the appellant and the order of compulsory retirement issued by the Government do not suffer from any legal flaw.
Judgment, page 30
From the headnote
Service Law - Judicial Service - Compulsory retirement Of appellant-judicial officer after 25 years in judicial service Challenge to - Scope of judicial review - Held: On facts, it ;annot be said that the recommendation made by the Full Court (of the High Court) to the Government for compulsory retirement of the appellant was arbitrary or based on material not germane for such recommendation - Recommendation made by High Court to the Government for compulsory retirement of the appellant and the order of compulsory retirement issued by the Government did not suffer from any legal flaw - In
Authorities it was built on
- 1974 Shamsher Singh & Anr v. State of Punjab
- 1991 All India Judges' Association v. Union of India
- 2011 Rajendra Singh Verma (dead) through Lrs v. Lt. Governor of Nct of Delhi & Anr.
- 2003 Chandra Singh v. State of Rajasthan and Anr.
- 1970 Union of India v. Col. J, N. Sinha and Anr.
- 1992 Baikuntha Nath Das and Anr. v. Chief Distt. Medical Officer, Baripada and Anr.
- 1997 High Court of Judicature at Bombay through its Registrar v. Shirish Kumar Rangrao Patil and Anr.
- 1989 Baidyanath Mahapatra v. State of Orissa & Anr.
- 1992 Indian Aluminium Company Limited and Anr. v. Karnataka Electricity Board and Ors.
- 1994 State of U.P. and Anr. v. Bihari Lal
Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Arun Kumar Gupta v. State of Jharkhand & Anr.
- 2019 Ram Murti Yadav v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to
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