Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 392 · Decided 8 May 2024
Union of India & ORS. v. Santosh Kumar Tiwari
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 392 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 429
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6135/2024
- Decided
- 8 May 2024
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Whether Rule 27 of the Central Reserve Police Force Rules, 1955 to the extent it provides for punishments other than those specified in Section 11 of the Central Reserve Police Force Act, 1949, is ultra vires the CRPF Act and as such inoperable and of compulsory retirement from service could have been imposed upon the respondent (a Head Constable in CRPF) by relying upon the provisions of Rule 27 of the CRPF Rules; whether the punishment of compulsory retirement imposed suffers from any procedural infirmity and / or is shockingly
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