{"id":1038281,"date":"2026-09-24T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038281"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:58:26","slug":"private-whatsapp-messages-cannot-be-treated-as-public-criticism-hp-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/private-whatsapp-messages-cannot-be-treated-as-public-criticism-hp-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Private WhatsApp messages cannot be treated as public criticism: HP HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered the reinstatement of a contract-based conductor of the HRTC, holding that a private conversation on WhatsApp cannot be treated as public criticism and that employees have a right to air their grievances and vent their frustration. <\/p>\n<p>The court quashed Himachal Road Transport Corporation&#8217;s (HRTC) October 10, 2023 order terminating the services of conductor Sunil Kumar, who was appointed on a contract basis in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered the reinstatement of a contract-based conductor of the HRTC, holding that a private conversation on WhatsApp cannot be treated as public criticism and that employees have a right to air their grievances and vent their frustration. The court quashed Himachal Road Transport Corporation&#8217;s (HRTC) October 10, 2023 order terminating the services of conductor Sunil Kumar, who was appointed on a contract basis in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038298,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038281\/revisions\/1038298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}