Supreme Court of India
U.P. State Road Transport Corporation v. Suresh Chand Sharma
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, the contention raised on behalf of the employee that punishment of dismissal from service was disproportionate to the proved delinquency of the employee, is not worth acceptance.
Judgment, page 13
From the headnote
Service Law: Misconduct - Misappropriation of public money - c Appropriate punishment - Conductor in State Road Transport Corporation recovering travelling fare from passengers but not issuing tickets to them - Misappropriating the recovered fare i.e. public money - Conductor terminated from service - Punishment of termination challenged as being dispr_oportionate on the ground that the amount misappropriated ~as petty - Held: The challenge is not tenable - Amount misappropriated may be small or large; it is the mens rea to misappropriate the public money that is relevant - In cases of
Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation v. Gajadhar Nath
- 2014 Rajasthan State Tpt Corpn. & Anr. v. Bajrang Lal
- 2011 The Divisional Controller, Ksrtc v. M.G. Vittal Rao
- 2015 U.P. State Road Transport Corp. &anr. v. Gopal Shukla & Anr.
- 2013 Nirmala J. Jhala v. State of Gujarat & Anr.
Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to
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