Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 70 · Decided 3 March 1971
Lekh Raj Khurana v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 70 · [1971] 3 S.C.R. 908
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1719/1967
- Decided
- 3 March 1971
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, G.K. MITTER, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 311
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950--Articlc 3ll-Civi1ian employee of Dejence Service-If entitled to protec(ion of Article. Slatutory Rules-Breach of-justiciability Natural Justice-If can be invoked under general law of 1naster and servant. The appellant was. appointed in 1942 as Labour Supervisor, Army charges against' him his ·service was terminated by givin~ him one month's notice under rule 5 of the Civilians in Defence Services (Temporai:v Service) . Rules, 1949. He challenged the kgality of the order of termination on the grounds that it had been passed by an officer subordinate to
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