Case Law Analysis
|Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
VDC Special Police Officers Not Entitled to Departmental Enquiry Under Article 311 | Service Law : J&K HC
The Jammu & Kashmir High Court ruled that Village Defence Committee Special Police Officers, being scheme-based appointees, are not 'civil servants' and thus cannot claim protections under Article 311 or Police Rules. Their disengagement requires only compliance with natural justice principles, not a formal departmental enquiry, impacting ad hoc security personnel across J&K.