Supreme Court Upholds Compulsory Retirement Of UP Judicial Officer
The Supreme Courtroom right now dismissed a plea in opposition to an order upholding the obligatory retirement of a judicial officer in Uttar Pradesh.
A bench of Justice M M Sundresh and Justice Okay Vinod Chandran was listening to the officer’s plea.
The judicial officer, who was initially appointed as a munsif/civil decide (junior division) in March 2001, was compulsorily retired from service by the state authorities in November 2021.
The officer challenged the state choice within the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom, which dismissed his plea on April 22.
The Excessive Courtroom noticed {that a} screening committee was constituted to look at the service file of judicial officers in an effort to “chop the deadwood” and the panel, upon total analysis of the service information, beneficial the officer’s obligatory retirement.
It additionally famous that the committee’s report was positioned earlier than the total courtroom which agreed with the panel’s advice to obligatory retire the officer.
The Apex Courtroom instructed his counsel, “Kindly give some credence to the knowledge of the total courtroom.”
The petitioner’s counsel mentioned the observe file of the officer was exemplary.
“I (petitioner) am not a deadwood,” the counsel mentioned, referring to the officer’s promotion.
The bench, nevertheless, mentioned, “We aren’t inclined to intrude with the impugned judgment and order. The particular depart petition is, accordingly, dismissed.”
In its order, the Excessive Courtroom famous the officer would have attained the age of superannuation in February 2026.
It additionally famous that on the time of passing of the order compulsorily retiring him from service, he was posted as a particular decide (Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act) at a trial courtroom in Uttar Pradesh.
With PTI Inputs
