Employer Cannot Revise Service Book After Retirement to Cover Its Own Lapses; Recovery from Retiree Quashed: High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh

The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that an employer cannot revise service book entries after an employee’s retirement to the employee’s prejudice, particularly when such revision is aimed at covering up the employer’s own administrative lapses. The Court ruled that once an issue relating to service conditions has been settled by an earlier judicial decision, the employer is bound to implement it without dilution and cannot…