This section covers landmark and recent court judgments that affect Central Government employees, pensioners, and their families. Each judgment is summarised with the citation, the bench, the question of law, the reasoning, and the operative direction. We link to the judgment text from the official website of the Supreme Court of India, the relevant High Court, the Central Administrative Tribunal, or the Armed Forces Tribunal.
Why we maintain this section
Service-law jurisprudence is the bedrock of every right and obligation under the CCS Rules. A pension formula change, a leave entitlement, a transfer policy, or a disciplinary procedure may all be tested against a constitutional or statutory standard. Knowing the leading judgments helps an employee identify when a Government order can be challenged, and a service-law advocate frame a remedy.
Latest articles
MACP and the Promotional Hierarchy Question: Court Position Through 2024
The recurring litigation on whether MACP financial upgradation should be in the promotional hierarchy or the next Pay Matrix level. Where the Supreme Court has settled, what remains open, and what employees should do.
Kakali Ghosh v. Chief Secretary, A&N (2014): Child Care Leave Cannot Be Denied Arbitrarily
The Supreme Court holds that 730 days of CCL can be granted in one stretch and that the leave-sanctioning authority must record reasons of exigency before refusing.
D.S. Nakara v. Union of India (1983): The Pension Equality Judgment
The Supreme Court ruling that pensioners are a homogeneous class and cannot be divided into pre-revision and post-revision categories. Why this 1983 case still controls every pension revision exercise.
What we will not do
We will not summarise a judgment from a news report. We will not paraphrase the operative direction in a way that loses precision. Where the judgment text is voluminous, we will set out the working principle in plain English and link to the full text for the practitioner who needs the source.