The Supreme Court today rejected a plea filed by a former judicial officer who was dismissed from service over filing of criminal cases against an ex-Chief Justice and Judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Prashant Kumar Mishra heard the matter and remarked that the petitioner did not deserve to be in any government service, much less the judicial service.

Briefly put, petitioner-Prabhakar Gwal was a judicial officer in Chhattisgarh. He was dismissed from service after the Full Court recommended his dismissal without inquiry on finding that he, through his wife, filed a criminal case against many persons, including the then Chief Justice and a senior judge of the High Court. Gwal challenged the dismissal order before the High Court, but both the Sin

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