Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 592 · Decided 3 November 2003
Union of India and ORS. v. Jaipal Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 592 · [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 115
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8565/2003
- Decided
- 3 November 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; Constitution Article 136, 141
Headnote
B Service Law : Back wages-(]overnment servant convicted by trial court of an offence uls 302134 /PC-Dismissal from service-On appeal, conviction set aside- C Writ petition by employee seeking reinstatement and fall back wages-Allowed by High Court-Held, though in the event of prosecution at the or a public servant got involved in a criminal case and if after initial conviction by trial court he gets acquittal on appeal subsequently, department cannot in D any manner be found fault with for having kept him out of service, since the law obliges a person convicted of an offence to be so
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