Supreme Court of India
The Secretary, Min.of Defence & Ors. v. Prabhash Chandra Mirdha
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, while leaving the question of law open, we do not want to proceed with the appeal further on merit.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
Service Law - Misconduct - Disciplinary proceedings - Whether the authority, lower or higher than of the appointing authority, can initiate the proceedings against the delinquent on grounds of alleged misconduct - Held: Removal and dismissal of a delinquent on misconduct must be by the authority not below the appointing authority- However, it does not mean that disciplinary proceedings may not be initiated against the delinquent by the authority lower than the appointing authority - It is permissible for an authority, higher than appointing authority to initiate the proceedings and impose
Authorities it was built on
- 2006 M.V. Bijlani v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2006 P.D. Agrawal v. State Bank of India and Ors.
- 2006 Union of India and Anr. v. Kunisetty Satyanarayana
- 1996 Inspector General of Police and Anr. v. Thavasiappan
- 1987 State of Uttar Pradesh v. Brahma Datt Sharma and Anr.
- 1998 State of Andhra Pradesh v. N. Radhakishan
- 2004 The Special Director and Anr. v. Mohd. Ghulam Ghouse and Anr.
- 1996 Secretary to Government, Prohibition and Excise Department v. L. Srinivasan
- 2007 Government of A.P. and Ors. v. V. Appalaswamy
- 1996 Balbir Chand v. The Food Corporation of India Ltd. and Ors.
- 2006 A. Sudhakar v. Post Master General, Hyderabad and Anr
- 1995 The Executive Engineer, Bihar State Housing Board v. Ramesh Kumar Singh and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2015 Commercial Motors Ltd. v. Commissioner of Trade Tax U.P., Lucknow & Others
- 2013 Union of India & Ors. v. B.V. Gopinath
- 2025 M/s Techno Prints v. Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation & Anr.
Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned
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