Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 228 · Decided 27 February 2020
Arun Kumar Gupta v. State of Jharkhand & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 228 · [2020] 3 S.C.R. 1015
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 190/2018
- Decided
- 27 February 2020
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, DEEPAK GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
Headnote
Service Law: Compulsory Retirement - Of Judicial Officers - Challenged in Writ Petition before Supreme Court - As per direction of Supreme Court, Screening Committee of High Court approved earlier action to compulsorily retire the officers - Resolution of Screening Court - Held: In respect of one officer against whom there had been complaints 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 decide the case
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