"State Can't shirk their Responsibility or its Vicarious Liability for Acts of its Officials" : Recent View of March 2023

 "State Can't shirk their Responsibility or its vicarious liability for acts of its Officials" : Recent View of March 2023

This view is apt. 

In T.J. Subija v State of Tamil Nadu [2023] GCtR 728 (Madurai, Madras), it has been commented thus : -

"State cannot shirk their responsibility or its vicarious liability for the acts of its officials which have resulted in violation of the privacy and loss of reputation of an unmarried women" and State was "directed to pay a compensation of Rs.2,00,000/- to the writ petitioner within a period of 8 weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and the State is at liberty to recover the same from the erring police officials if they are advised to do so."

This principle must be applied on public sector bank employees whenever due to their action, any person is forced to take recourse to litigation or the employees of public sector bank take such decisions that embroil their banks in a litigation where it is held that the petition filed by their bank is to be dismissed. If that is not done, some public sector bank employees will continue to take decisions which are not legally sustainable thereby causing immense agony to public and creating burden on Hon'ble Courts. 

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Vishal

Delhi

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