India, Jan. 13 -- The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the reinstatement of a Madhya Pradesh judge who was dismissed from service in 2019 for allegedly misbehaving with a woman co-passenger in a train while in an inebriated state, with the top court describing the case as "shocking", "disgusting" and observing that "nothing less than termination" was warranted in such circumstances.

A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta admitted an appeal challenging the May 2025 judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court that quashed the termination of civil judge Navneet Singh Yadav and directed his reinstatement. The bench stayed the operation of the high court's order.

"It is a shocking case...He urinated in the compartment and there was a ...