Disposed
Hc Umakant Pandey v. Union of India & Ors.
Delhi HCW.P.(C)/7158/2013
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
This judgment disposed of a writ petition where the petitioner, injured on Assembly election duty and hospitalized, challenged a superficial regularization order. The court applied a 2014 circular and a recent precedent to direct that the hospitalization be treated as duty with full leave salary and pension implications.
What did the court decide?
Hospitalization period to be treated as spent on duty; release of withheld amounts and making of consequential orders.