India, Jan. 13 -- The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Madhya Pradesh High Court order that quashed the termination of a judicial officer who allegedly created a nuisance and urinated in front of the berth of a woman co-passenger onboard a train in 2018. Terming the civil judge's conduct as "disgusting", a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta observed that it was a "shocking" case and he should have been dismissed.

The apex court issued a notice to the judicial officer and the Madhya Pradesh Government seeking their responses on the petition filed by the High Court's administrative side against a May last year order of the High Court's division bench that had quashed the termination order of September 2019 and had directed tha...