Taking Overseas Assignment Without Prior Permission Amounts to Misconduct, CAT Order Granting Sanction Set Aside: Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has ruled that a Government servant who takes up foreign employment without prior permission commits misconduct under the service rules. A Division Bench of Justice Sindhu Sharma and Justice Shahzad Azeem set aside an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal which had directed grant of post-facto sanction to a university professor for foreign employment. The writ petition was filed by Sher-e-Kashmir…