Gender cannot be a ground to deny promotion where Recruitment Rules make no distinction: Tripura HC
The Tripura High Court quashed the Inspector General of Prisons’ communication and directed reconsideration within three months.
Service Law
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) shaping Service and Labour Laws which covers pension recovery, withholding of pension, abandonment of service, pay fixation, employees’ compensation, voluntary retirement, recruitment of persons with disabilities.
Service Law June 2026 | Key Supreme Court and High Court Rulings on Appointment, Recruitment, Resignation & Employment Regulation
Bringing together the month’s significant service law developments from Supreme Court and High Court decisions on appointment, recruitment, eligibility, jurisdiction, employment regulation, and resignation.
Challenge to a Policy Doesn’t Justify Interim Suspension of Operative Rules; Delhi HC Affirms AFT’s Refusal to Permit NEET PG Appearance Under Superseded Rules
Armed Forces Tribunal refused to grant interim relief permitting the petitioners, SSC Medical Officers, to apply for and appear in the NEET PG Examination, 2026 on a priority basis.
Administrative Delays in Workshop Renewals Can’t Prejudice Eligible Candidates: SC Upholds Fresh TNPSC Motor Vehicle Inspector Recruitment Process
The Court held that the candidates included in the revised list of 226 candidates acquired no vested right and must participate in the fresh selection process.
Compassionate Appointment Cannot be Kept in Abeyance by Invoking Rule Applicable Only to Financial Assistance: SC upholds Haryana Rule
Supreme Court clarified that compassionate appointment and compassionate financial assistance are distinct benefits under the Haryana Compassionate Assistance Rules, 2019, and held that Rule 23(1) cannot be invoked to defer a claim for compassionate appointment during the pendency of criminal proceedings.
CAPF Personnel Can Approach Delhi HC’s Writ Jurisdiction in Service Matters Despite Cause of Action Arising Elsewhere: Supreme Court
Reiterating the distinction between territorial jurisdiction and forum convenience, the Supreme Court held that once jurisdiction is validly attracted under Article 226(1) by the presence of necessary respondent authorities within a High Court’s territorial limits, the doctrine of forum non conveniens cannot be routinely invoked to decline adjudication.
Pre-Marital Physical Relationship Between Consenting Adults Not Ground to Draw Adverse Inference on Character: Supreme Court Restores Police Constable’s Appointment
The Court was considering a case where the appellant’s provisional selection to the post of Stipendiary Cadet Trainee Police Constable was cancelled on ground of criminal antecedents resulting from moral turpitude.
Teachers of Recognised Private Unaided Schools Teachers Entitled to Child Care Leave on Par with Government School Teachers in Delhi: Delhi High Court
The Court held that Rule 111, Delhi School Education Rules, 1973 grants the benefit of child care leave to an employee of a recognised private school, whether aided or unaided, at par with such employees working in a corresponding status in a government school.
Electoral Integrity, Human Trafficking, Stray Dogs, UAPA Bail, Benami Property and More: Supreme Court May 2026 — Every Landmark Judgment in One Place
May 2026 was a landmark month for Indian constitutional law. The Supreme Court upheld electoral integrity, extended protection to trafficking survivors, reformed bail jurisprudence, advanced gender equality in matrimonial law, and settled long-contested questions in arbitration, IBC, and property law
Same Person, Two Police Forces, Two Names: SC Restores Police Constable’s Dismissal and Orders Criminal Proceedings
“If individuals entrusted with enforcing the law themselves secure entry into service through deception and fabricated credentials, it would seriously erode the Rule of Law.”
Corruption Charge Not Proved, Yet Employee Removed: Delhi HC Sets Aside Penalty, Directs Reinstatement
The Court held that path from the proved fact of transfer of Rs 75,000 to the conclusion of bribery remains unexplained.
Supreme Court: Essential qualification cannot be relaxed by implication; higher qualification no substitute for mandatory experience
The terms of the recruitment rules and the advertisement form the basis of the selection process and are binding on both, the candidates as well as the recruiting agencies.
SC Partly Upholds Haryana Regularisation Policies: 2014 Notifications Valid, Subsequent Scheme for Backdoor Appointees Struck Down
The criteria prescribed was not in any manner watered down or deviated from the criteria required to be satisfied while seeking regular appointment.
Discharge by criminal court bars subsequent disciplinary action: Supreme Court restores honour of dismissed Air Force Officer
Initiation of administrative proceedings for disciplinary action against the appellant, we unhesitatingly hold, was bad in law and non est.
Presidential Order prevails over Battalion-wise seniority rules in Special Police Battalions: Telangana HC
“When the executive authority, entrusted with the implementation of the Service Rules, concedes their incompatibility with the governing constitutional instrument, the Court cannot sustain their validity.”
Denial of appointment despite availability of vacancies discriminatory; Supreme Court directs appointment with notional benefits
“In view of the plea of discrimination as taken and the response filed in the counter affidavit, it is clear that out of 16 candidates 3 could not join, therefore, those posts are available.”
Relaxation in qualifying exam doesn’t bar reserved category candidates’ migration to open category on merit unless expressly prohibited: Supreme Court
“TET only enables the reserved category candidates to participate in the main examination i.e. TAIT. No relaxation or concession has been granted to reserved category candidates in the main examination and their merit has been evaluated at par with general category candidates.”
Supreme Court strikes down Section 3(b) of J&K Civil Services Act insofar it excludes employees appointed on “Academic Arrangement Basis” from regularisation
“The State, as a model employer, cannot adopt artificial classifications to deny statutory benefits. Repackaging contractual engagements under a different nomenclature, while denying regularization, violates the equality mandate under Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution.”
Madhya Pradesh HC directs Enquiry against Trial Court Judge for Non-Compliance with its Orders
“Although the Trial Court might be right in obtaining spot inspection report, but that report should have been considered after recording evidence of witnesses and the trial Court should have come to a conclusion as to whether temporary injunction order was breached by any of the parties or not, but nothing of that sort has been done.”