India, Jan. 23 -- New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that indefinite suspension of a government servant was prejudicial to the state exchequer, as they remain on the payroll without doing work, and recalled its October 2021 order suspending 32 Tihar Jail officials for allegedly extending extraordinary benefits to former Unitech promoters Ajay Chandra and Sanjay Chandra when they were lodged as undertrials for allegedly siphoning off money from homebuyers.

Dealing with an application filed by one of the suspended jail officials, assistant superintendent of jail Chet Ram Meena, for reinstatement, the bench of justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh directed the Director General of Prisons to take a decision on Meena's reins...