HC dismisses NSEL judgeu2019s plea against state govt THE Bombay High Court has dismissed the petition of a temporary judge, who was assigned cases pertaining to the multi- crore National Spot Exchange Ltd ( NSEL) scam, seeking quashing of a Maharashtra government order that had terminated his services.

A division bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice N B Suryawanshi dismissed the petition filed by judge Ajay Dinode challenging the order dated June 23, 2017, discharging him from the service and u201c creating disqualification from future employmentu201d. The bench noted that the impugned order was passed by the government after taking into consideration the overall performance, conduct and the suitability of the petitioner for the job. Dinode was appointed as a district judge on August 26, 2014 and was posted at Akola.