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Madras High Court Quashes Recovery Order Against Former Judicial Department Employee in Pay Revision Dispute Under Article 226 — Pay Fixation Error Not Attributable to Employee's Misrepresentation Causing Extreme Hardship. Recovery of Excess Salary Paid Over Decades Struck Down Following Supreme Court Precedent in State of Punjab v. Rafiq Masih....

The petitioner, a former Typist in the Judicial Department of Tamil Nadu, joined service as a Copyist in 1995 and was promoted to Typist in 2000. Upon reaching the Selection Grade, her pay was fixed o...

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High Court of Madras Partly Allows Writ Petition in Service Matter — Recovery of Excess Pay Set Aside Despite Pay Revision Confirmed. Employee's Excess Pay Recovery Set Aside as Employer Error Without Misrepresentation, Applying Rafiq Masih Principles....

The writ petition was filed by A. Shenbagavalli, an employee of the subordinate judiciary in Tamil Nadu, who was appointed as a Copyist on 13.01.1999 and regularised on 14.01.1999. She was later promo...

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Madras High Court Quashes Recovery Order Against Senior Bailiff in Service Matter Due to Departmental Error. Recovery of Excess Salary for 29-Year Period Set Aside as No Misrepresentation Shown, Causing Extreme Hardship Under Article 226 of Constitution....

The petitioner, who was appointed as a Senior Bailiff in 1993, received an Official Memorandum dated 09.06.2022 from the 6th respondent stating that his pay had been wrongly fixed and excess salary ha...

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Madras High Court Dismisses Appeal on Equivalence of Engineering Degrees for Lecturer Post Recruitment. Court Holds That Equivalence of Degrees for Public Employment Must Be Granted by Government Based on Equivalent Committee and Not Through Judicial Review....

This intra-court writ appeal was filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent by H. Risuwanabegam challenging the order dated 15.02.2024 passed by a Single Judge in W.P. No. 21415 of 2022. The appellant ha...

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Madras High Court Allows State's Writ Appeal and Sets Aside Direction for Grant of Promotion in Highways Department. Court Holds that Promotion Is Not a Vested Right But Consideration Is Fundamental; Directs Department to Verify Eligibility and Adhere to 3:1 Quota Ratio (Paras 6-11)....

The case concerned a writ appeal filed by the State of Tamil Nadu against a single judge's order directing the promotion of a diploma holder Junior Engineer to the post of Assistant Divisional Enginee...

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Madras High Court Decides Second Appeal Arising from a Suit for Permanent and Mandatory Injunction in a Property Dispute. The Court Examines Whether Lower Courts Erred in Granting Restricted Permanent Injunction and Refusing Mandatory Injunction When Plaintiffs' Title Was Established and Easementary Right Was Not Pleaded....

The case concerned a dispute over a main property ('A' schedule) and an L-shaped vacant strip ('B' schedule) adjacent to it. The plaintiffs claimed ownership through two sale deeds dated June 11, 1987...

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High Court of Judicature at Madras Considers Review Applications in Service Dispute Over Work Assistants in Puducherry Public Works Department. The Court Examines Whether the Central Administrative Tribunal's Order on Work Assistants' Claims Suffers from Error Apparent on the Face of the Record Warranting Review....

The High Court of Judicature at Madras heard two review applications, REV.APLW Nos. 106 and 105 of 2026, involving service law disputes. The petitioners, who include Work Assistants and an association...