JAMMU, Aug. 5 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has upheld the dismissal of a Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Development Corporation employee, ruling that a delinquent official who deliberately stays away from disciplinary proceedings despite repeated opportunities cannot later complain of violation of natural justice.
A Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Mohd Yousuf Wani allowed an appeal filed by the Union Territory and set aside the October 11, 2022 judgment of a Single Judge, which had quashed the termination of JKTDC employee Abdul Rashid Durrani.
Durrani was appointed as an ad hoc waiter in 1983, regularised in 1985 and later promoted as Floor Supervisor in 2008. His services were termi...