Supreme Court of India

Arun Kumar Gupta v. State of Jharkhand & Anr.

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Reported as [2020] 3 S.C.R. 1015
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 27 February 2020

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, both the writ petitions are dis missed.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Service Law: Compulsory Retirement – Of Judicial Officers – Challe nged in Writ Petition before Supreme Court – As per direction o f Supreme Court, Screening Committee of High Court approved earli er action to compulsorily retire the officers – Resolution of Screening Committee approved by Standing Committee of High Court – He ld: In respect of one officer against whom there had been c omplaints that during training of Civil Service probationers, in his lectures he had used highly sexist language and that he had hurt a washerman with hot iron – The two instances are sufficient to dec ide the

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