Public Employment Archives

Delhi High Court| Air India not ‘State’ under Article 12 after privatization; Employees of Air India Limited no longer fall within the domain of ‘public employment’

Under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, a writ cannot be issued against a Government- entity which has been subsequently privatized and no longer performs any public duty.

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“Mere assumption of misuse cannot invalidate Section 10C of West Bengal School Service Commission Act, 1997”; Calcutta High Court upholds constitutionality

“Every service in the public employment unless forbidden by law is transferable.”

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Explained| Allahabad High Court order upholding State Government’s decision to cancel Ziledari Qualifying Examination 2018

Allahabad High Court said that recruitment has to be fair, transparent and accountable, if there are irregularities and malpractices and illegality in the recruitment process, it would undermine very legitimacy of the recruitment process

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Married daughter cannot claim compassionate appointment as a right; certainly not years after employee’s death: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: In a case where a married daughter of the deceased was claiming compassionate appointment, the bench of MR Shah* and

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Meghalaya High Court | Selection processes should be transparent and not guided by Nepotism

“…that greater weightage is desirable to be given to the objective part of the assessment since the Indian psyche is such that the subjective part of the assessment, more often than not, is tainted, influenced or guided by nepotism or the usual uncle culture or even more disagreeable extraneous considerations.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Benefit conferred on one or a set of people, without legal basis or justification, cannot multiply and be relied upon as a principle of parity: SC

Supreme Court: In a case where some candidates who had applied for the post of Helper/trainee with Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution

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Jhar HC | Clarifying the scope of Para 5(1) of Schedule V to the Constitution, Court strikes down notification granting preferential treatment to residents of scheduled districts in matters of public employment

Jharkhand High Court: A Full Bench of H.C. Mishra, Shree Chandrashekhar and Deepak Roshan JJ., while deciding on the validity of the