2021 (3) TMI 1349

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....O. 9660 OF 2020)) - -<br>Indian Laws<br>DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD AND M.R. SHAH, JJ. For the Appellant : Lalita Kaushik, AOR For the Respondent : Shubhranshu Padhi, AOR, Ashish Yadav, Rakshit Jain and Vishal Banshal, Advs. JUDGMENT Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, J. 1. Delay condoned. 2. Leave granted. 3. This appeal arises from a judgment and order of a Division Bench of the High Court of O....

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....essary for the Court to consider the facts of the case in detail in view of what we indicate hereafter. In paragraph 4 of its judgment dated 21 November 2019, the High Court extracted portions of the judgment of the Tribunal. Thereafter, the High Court noted that "the Tribunal has elaborately discussed the law" while issuing directions. Having said this, the High Court made the following observati....

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....gy enables judges to bring speed, efficiency and accuracy to judicial work. But a prolific use of the &#39;cut-copy-paste&#39; function should not become a substitute for substantive reasoning which, in the ultimate analysis, is the defining feature of the judicial process. Judges are indeed hard pressed for time, faced with burgeoning vacancies and large case-loads. Crisp reasoning is perhaps the....

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....timacy to the judiciary. 8. In the present case, the issue was whether the first Respondent was correctly denied selection to the IAS having regard to the fact that a disciplinary penalty had been imposed upon him on 29 September 2011. The UPSC has submitted that the DOPT Guidelines apply to the constitution of Departmental Promotion Committees for the purpose of promotion, whereas, in matters ....