Supreme Court of India

R.j.gajendra Kumar v. The Government of Tamil Nadu

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Bench Manoj Misra and Ujjal Bhuyan JJ.
Decided 22 August 2026

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What the Court ordered

Civil Appeals are allowed. However, there shall be no order as to costs.

Judgment, 55

In brief

The appellant passed SSLC (10th) in 1982 and one year of higher secondary, but discontinued studies on his father's death and was appointed on compassionate grounds as Junior Assistant in the Tamil Nadu Tourism Department in 1983. With the Director of Tourism's permission he joined the second-year foundation course at Madurai Kamaraj Open University (1984) and thereafter obtained B.Com. (1987), a postgraduate diploma in Tourism (1993) and M.Com.…

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