Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 113 · Decided 20 April 1988
LT. COL. K.D. Gupta v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 113 · [1988] 3 S.C.R. 646
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1702/1987
- Decided
- 20 April 1988
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.M. DUTT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
. ..I Army Act, 1950: Section 20, 191 and 192 and Special Army Instruction No. 1 dated January 9, 1974--Army Officer-Subjected to < frequent medical examination-Downgrading and upgrading between shape-I and shape-III-Treated to have been reduced in rank-Whether c justified? ~ The appellant was Lieutenant. He rose to the level of Lt. Colonel on 27th February, 1975. In March, 1976 he was directed to report to the Military Hospital for his psychiatric examina- D tion, where his medical classification was reduced from shape-I to shape-Ill, and he was posted as GLO and treated as Major.
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