Supreme Court of India

Abhay Jain v. The High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan and Anr

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Reported as [2022] 16 S.C.R. 693

Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and Vineet Saran JJ.

Decided 15 March 2022

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the appellant was competent to pass the bail order dated 27.04.2015 and that the Respondent has not been able to prove the presence of any extraneous consideration or ulterior motive on the part of the appellant.

Judgment, page 50

From the headnote

Judicial Service – Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 2010 – rr.45 and 46 – Entitlement to pr otection u/Art.311 of the Constitution – Bail or der dated 27.04.2015 passed by Appellant-judicial officer in favour an accused in a case under Pr evention of Cor ruption Act became genesis of action taken against him – Departmental enquiry instituted against him u/r .16 of Rajasthan Civil Ser vices (Classification, Contr ol and Appeal) Rules, 1958 for acts amounting to misconduct and violation of r r.3 and 4 of the Rajasthan Civil Services (Conduct Rules), 1971 – Allegation leveled that appellant

Authorities it was built on

1978 Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India cited by 97
1974 Shamsher Singh & Anr v. State of Punjab cited by 26
2001 Pavanendra Narayan Verma v. Sanjay Gandhi P.G.I. of Medical Sciences and Anr. Novembers, 2001 cited by 9
1988 Ishwar Chand Jain v. High Court of Punjab & Haryana and Another cited by 7
2013 Sukhdev Singh v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 7
1998 Radhey Shyam Gupta v. U.P. State Agro Industries Corporation Ltd. and Anr. cited by 6
2007 Ramesh Chander Singh v. High Court of Allahabad and Anr cited by 5
2001 P.C. Joshi v. State of U.P. and Ors. cited by 5
2019 Krishna Prasad Verma (d) Thr. Lrs. v. State of Bihar & Ors. cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2026 Nirbhay Singh Suliya v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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