An employee cannot choose and be allowed to move back and forth between two services. – Kerala High Court The petitioner who was originally working with Kerala Water Authority sought to be appointed in the Motor Vehicles Department subsequently, which had been acceded to. Later requested that he be repatriated to his parent department which was also acceded to. While working with Kerala Water Authority, he again made representation to allow him to move back to the Motor Vehicles Departmen...

An employee has no vested/inherent right to stake a claim for leave encashment, unless otherwise enabled by the statute or by norms or rules regulating conditions of service. – Kerala High Court The Petitioner who resigned before he had attained the cut off age of 55 years sought the benefit of earned leave as per the scheme opted by him. The Court remarked that the incident of retirement, either voluntary or on superannuation, is a sine qua non for claiming the benefit of earned leave as...

A proclaimed offender would not be entitled to anticipatory bail. Supreme Court reiterates. The Supreme Court dissatisfied with the Order of High Court granting anticipatory bail to a proclaimed offender held that the respondent, without first successfully assailing the order declaring him as a proclaimed offender, could not have proceeded to seek anticipatory bail and that the respondent’s application under Section 438, CrPC should not have been entertained, as he was a proclaimed offend...

Taunt by mother-in-law about how the victim wore a maxi is wholly insufficient to constitute cruelty in terms of Section 498A IPC. Supreme Court quashes FIR against the in-laws as the allegations of harassment were general, omnibus and far-fetched. Abhishek v. State of Madhya Pradesh Hon’ble Justice Aniruddha Bose, Hon’ble Justice Sanjay Kumar & Hon’ble Justice S.V.N. Bhatti Decided on 31st August, 2023 For full textclick here

Centre notifies Justice C.S Sudha to be appointed as the permanent Judge of Kerala High Court. For notificationclick here