Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 915 · Decided 11 December 2015
Shakti Kumar Gupta v. State of Jammu and Kashmir and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 915 · [2015] 14 S.C.R. 250
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 355/2014
- Decided
- 11 December 2015
- Bench
- J.S. KHEHAR, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Higher Judicial Service Rules, 2009 - r.24 - Premature c retirement - Of judicial officer - On the basis of his Annual Confidential Reports, past records and other relevant material - Held: The Annual Confidential Report which formed the basis of premature retirement cannot be said in the eyes of law not being truthful assessment o of the various constituents of the judicial officer's work and conduct - However, other considerations, apart from the Annual Confidential Reports, were sufficient justifying the premature retirement in terms of r.24 when read in conjunction
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