The Delhi High Court imposed Rs 1 lakh costs on DTC for pursuing a 32-year-old dispute over 17 months’ back wages owed to a bus conductor. The court called the prolonged litigation an abuse of process and avoidable expenditure of public money
The Supreme Court awarded back wages, revised pension benefits and Rs 10 lakh in litigation costs to a retired CRPF officer, holding that prolonged administrative lapses damaged his career. However, it declined to grant him promotion to the rank of inspector general
