The Raman Singh government has dismissed Sukma district's Chief Judicial Magistrate Prabhakar Gwal from service in "public interest", following the recommendation of the Chhattisgarh High Court.
"The HC, on the basis of material available on record, has resolved that it does not appear reasonable... To hold a departmental inquiry against Prabhakar Gwal.
"Therefore, the departmental enquiry was dispensed with and Gwal was recommended to be dismissed," an officer of law and legislative affairs department told PTI.
He did not reveal the reasons for the decision.
The order of dismissal, which was issued on April 1, came to light when Gwal himself wrote about it on his Facebook wall yesterday.
While serving asBilaspur additional chief judicial magistrate last year, Gwal had sentenced five persons to six years' imprisonment in a case related to leakage of question papers of Pre-Medical Test conducted by Chhattisgarh Professional Examination Board in 2011.
Later, he had accused a ruling BJP MLA of threatening him over the judgement.
