Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Ors. v. Dinanath Shantaram Karekar and Ors.

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Reported as [1998] 3 S.C.R. 933
Bench S. Saghir Ahmad and G.B. Pattanaik JJ.
Decided 30 July 1998

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above, we do not find any reason to interfere with the findings recorded by the Tribunal.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Service Law : Departmental Enquiry-Procedure-Charge-sheet and show-cause notice-Service of-By registered post and pub!ication in a newspaper- Sufficiency of-Charge-sheet sent by registered post received back with postal endorsement "not found"-Show-cause notice published in newspaper­ Held : single effort, in this case, is not sufficient-Further efforts to serve the charge-sheet should have been made-Newspaper not shown to be popular or having wide circulation-Hence, disciplinary proceedings vitiated for want of service of charge-sheet and showe-casue notice-Further, service of charge-sheet

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 mentioned

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