Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 349 · Decided 8 August 2001
P.C. Joshi v. State of U.P. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 349 · [2001] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 369
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5182/2001
- Decided
- 8 August 2001
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, DORAISWAMY RAJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
B Service law: Judicial officer-Misconduct-Termination of service-Tests to be adopted-Held, initiation of disciplinary proceedings is not warranted merely C because the order is wrong or a different action could have been taken-Bona fide erroneous exercise of judicial powers is not misconduct at of his services on the grounds that the charges D levelled against him do not constitute misconduct and that the findings recorded in the inquiry are based on conjectures and surmises and not on facts. The High Court dismissed the writ petition. Hence this appeal. Allowing the appeal, the
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