Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Another v. G. Ganayutham (dead) by Lrs.

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Reported as [1997] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 549

Bench Sujata V. Mahohar and M. Jagannadha Rao JJ.

Decided 27 August 1997

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we set aside the order of the Tribunal which has interfered with the quantum of punishment and which has also substituted its own view of the punishment.

Judgment, page 22

Authorities it was built on

1981 F.R. Jesuratnam v. Union of India & Others cited by 4

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