Supreme Court of India

Uco Bank and Anr. v. Rajinder Lal Capoor

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Reported as [2007] 7 S.C.R. 543

Bench S.B. Sinha and Markandey Ka Tju JJ.

Decided 18 May 2007

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that we should not allow an illegality j to be perpetuated which is otherwise apparent on the face of his record.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Service Law-Disciplinary Proceedings-Initiation of-Under Discipline and appeal Regulations-After Superannuation of the employee- Propriety of-Charge-Sheet issued after date of superannuation-Prior to superannuation only show-cause notices issued-Held : Disciplinary proceedings could not have been initiated under the Regulations after superannuation of the employee-Legal fiction under the provision of the ·regulations could have been invoked only if the proceedings had been initiated while the employee was in service-Departmental proceeding is not initiated merely by issuance of show cause

Authorities it was built on

1996 The Disciplinary Authority-cum-regional Manager and Ors. v. Nikunja Bihari Patnalk cited by 19
2007 Dilip S. Dahanukar v. Kotak Mahindra Co. Ltd. and Anr. cited by 15

Where later benches applied it

2018 Uco Bank & Ors. v. Rajendra Shankar Shukla relied on
2014 State Bank of Patiala and Another v. Ram Niwas Bansal (dead) through Lrs. relied on
2011 Chairman-cum-m.d., Coal India Ltd., & Ors. v. Ananta Saha & Ors. relied on
2026 Uco Bank v. Sk Shrivastava referred to
2025 K. Prabhakar Hegde v. Bank of Baroda referred to
2024 State Bank of India & Ors. v. Navin Kumar Sinha referred to
2020 Chairman-cum-managing Director, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited v. Sri Rabindranath Choubey referred to
2013 Ch. Cum Man. Director Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd. v. Rabindranath Choubey referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 5 referred to

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