Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 617 · Decided 2 May 2019
The State of Jammu and Kashmir and ORS. v. Farid Ahmad Tak
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 617 · [2019] 7 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4563/2019
- Decided
- 2 May 2019
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Prevention of Corruption Act
Headnote
Service Law: Compulsory retirement - Justifiability of - Respondent official compulsorily retired by State in terms of Art. 226(2) of Service Regulations - On the basis of registration of an FIR alleging demand and acceptance of bribe - Challenged by filing writ petition the petition, holding that the decision to compulsorily retire the Respondent was taken merely on basis of FIR without taking into account APRs of Respondent and further norms for arriving at decision with regard to integrity of Respondent were not followed - Order of Single Judge confirmed
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