Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu of the Supreme Court of India recently ruled that there is no law allowing a public employer to fire or remove an employee who has been with the company for over 10 years just because there is a pending criminal case against him. On this ground, the Supreme Court gave relief to a dismissed employee stating that the act of termination of service in this case is not justifiable.
The article gives full details about the circumstances that led to the employee’s dismissal and his eventual win in the Supreme Court after a lengthy 14-year legal battle through various courts. (Case no: 2026 INSC 798).
