JHARKHAND HIGH COURT ISSUES ORDER ON BASANT KUMAR SINGH V/S THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

RANCHI, India, Oct. 25 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Sept. 25:

1. Heard.

2. The Appeal is preferred against the judgment dated 15.01.2024 passed in W.P.(S) No. 7487 of 2012 of the learned Single Judge, which was dismissed.

3. Aggrieved by the dismissal of his writ petition, the appellant-writ petitioner has filed the instant appeal.

4. The parties shall be referred to as they were before the learned writ Court.

5. The petitioner approached the writ Court with a prayer for quashing the order dated 05.01.2012 whereby and whereunder the respondent No.4 (Commandant, Jharkhand Armed Police) had imposed the punishment of forfeiture of two years' increment with cumulative effect. This order of punishment was thereaf...