Supreme Court of India

Rajasthan State Road Transport Corp. & Ors. v. Babu Lal Jangir

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Reported as [2013] 11 S.C.R. 159
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and A.K. Sikri JJ.
Decided 16 September 2013

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Held as under: G Merely because a promotion has been given even after adverse entries were made, cannot be a ground to note that compulsory retirement of the government servant could not be ordered.

Judgment, page 19

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Service Law - Retirement - Compulsory retirement - Respondent working in appellant-transport Corporation compulsorily retired from service in the year 2002 - Writ Petition - High Court held that the acts of misconduct pointed out against the respondent pertained to a period more than 12 years before his compulsory retirement and it was unjust, unreasonable and arbitrary to retire the respondent prematurely on the basis of old and stale material pertaining o to the period 1978-1990 - Quashing of the order of compulsory retirement of respondent - Justification - Held: The entire service record

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