Service Law September 2025: A Look at the Month’s Biggest Cases
Covering all the important service law cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases and links to other roundups.
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SERVICE LAW ROUNDUP: Landmark Rulings and Legislative Updates from August 2025
Catch up with the important Service Law cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court as well as the legislative updates.
Service Law July 2025: Unpacking Key Judgments and Legislation Updates!
Covering all the important service law cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court as well as the legislative updates, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, latest legal updates in service law and links to other roundups.
Why Supreme Court decided to quash recruitment of 1091 Asst. Professors & 67 Librarians in Government Degree colleges of Punjab
“Quashing of the entire recruitment process may cause hardships for the selected candidates, but at the same time, there is no equity in the favour of selected candidates as challenge to the recruitment was made during the pendency of the process.”
SERVICE LAW ROUNDUP: A quick recap of the latest Service Law rulings from June 2025.
Covering all the important service law cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court as well as the legislative updates, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, latest legal updates in service law and links to other roundups.
Cases Reported in HCC | Latest High Court Cases on Service and Labour Laws
Explore the latest Cases reported in SCC’s High Court Cases (HCC)Volume on Industrial Dispute, Transfer of Employees, Departmental Enquiry, Compulsory Retirement and much more.
‘Litigant cannot claim negative discrimination seeking direction to department to act in violation of statutory Rules’; SC rejects retired peon’s plea for promotion to Tracer post
The appellant’s case was that the similarly placed employees were promoted as Tracer from the post of Peon. Hence, looking at the discrimination, her case deserved to be considered.
SC interprets eligibility criteria for promotion to Associate Professor in medical teaching; discusses interplay between executive orders and KS & SSR Rules
“It is well settled that no word, no phrase and no expression used in a legislation should be excluded as surplusage, while the Courts embark on a course of interpretation.”
SC dismisses petition regarding challenge to the appointment of Catering Supervisor made only on basis of interview marks
The respondent had filed original application before Central Administrative Tribunal challenging selection of Catering Supervisor based only on marks obtained in the interview and excluding marks of written test.
RG Kar Rape and Murder Case | WB Govt. must explain the legal source of authority for the recruitment of Civic Volunteers in the State: SC
The Court directed West Bengal Govt. to submit an affidavit to disclose the selection process which is followed for the recruitment of the Civic Volunteers and the steps which have been taken to ensure that such Civic Volunteers do not operate in sensitive establishments.
Gauhati High Court directs State to reconsider experience as homeguards/ Special Police Officers for constables recruitment under Assam Industrial Security Force
The High Court directed the State to follow a uniform marks allocation process for the appointment of constables under AISF and reconsider the case of candidates having prior experience as home guards and SPOs.
[Cash for Job Scam] Calcutta HC invalidates 24000 appointments secured through WB-SSC 2016 for State Fund Misappropriation for Illicit Employment
“Documents placed on record suggest that the State Government, at the level of the Cabinet had approved creation of the supernumerary posts to accommodate the persons who had received employment illegally in the selection process”
Supreme Court upholds Allahabad HC order rejecting claims of armed forces veterans for recruitment on posts of Village Development Officers
“There is no concept of serving personnel being deemed Ex-Servicemen, and it is not proper to hold or interpret otherwise, as it would be unjust to many others similarly placed, who were not Ex-Servicemen as on the date of advertisement but came under the category later but did not apply at the relevant time”
‘Failed to implement 4% reservation criteria for persons with benchmark disability’; Delhi HC sets aside 2018 recruitment advertisement published by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
“An act of discrimination is not only a denial of promise of equal protection before the law. Rather, every act of exclusion is an assault on the dignity of a person. Instead of providing an equal space to grow, we have been compelling the persons with disabilities to prove, time and again, that they are capable of a lot more than we think.”
Delhi High Court| Fit case for adjudicating whether UPSC can be directed to release Answer Key for UPSC Prelims, 2023 before Final Results
In the instant case, since the candidates are merely asking for the disclosure of the answer key, the same stands on a different footing altogether than the recruitment in the context of Article 323A of the Constitution.
Delhi High Court directs Indian Coast Guard to make a seat available to the non-merit candidate in the interest of justice
Delhi High Court observed that the petitioner’s strong determination to join the Force is established by the fact that he lost 15 kg in 42 days with utmost dedication to qualify the Stage IV i.e. Medical and was declared successful.
Madras High Court quashes notification inviting applications for appointment as member in Consumer Redressal Commissions in Tamil Nadu
If the notifications are bad in law and they are liable to be quashed, the subsequent selection procedure that has been undertaken would also suffer from the same vice.
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
SC Recruitment cell pushes Law Clerk-cum-Research Associates Examination 2023 to June 4; shares ‘Sample guide’ of questions and answers
The two-Part Law Clerk-cum-Research Associates Examination, that was earlier scheduled to be conducted on 27-05-2023, will now be conducted in pen and paper mode on Sunday, 04-06-2023 in two shifts.
