Supreme Court of India

Arun Kumar Gupta v. State of Jharkhand & Anr.

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Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 27 February 2020

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, both the writ petitions are dismissed.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Service Law: Compulsory Retirement – Of Judicial Officers – Challenged in Writ Petition before Supreme Court – As per direction of Supreme Court, Screening Committee of High Court approved earlier action to compulsorily retire the officers – Resolution of Screening Committee approved by Standing Committee of High Court – Held: In respect of one officer against whom there had been complaints that during training of Civil Service probationers, in his lectures he had used highly sexist language and that he had hurt a washerman with hot iron – The two instances are sufficient to decide the case…

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