Supreme Court of India
Ajay Kumar Choudhary v. Union of India through its Secretary & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above discussion, the following propositions emerge, meant to serve as guidelines.
Judgment, page 16
From the headnote
Service Law - Suspension - Protraction of - Propriety - Held: Right to speedy trial is implicit in Art. 21 of the Constitution and also reflected in s.309 Cr.PC. c - Proviso to s. 167(2) Cr.P. . has the effect of circumscribing the detention of an accused within a period of 90 days - The quintessence of the proviso to s.167(2) can be extrapolated to moderate suspension orders in cases of departmental disciplinary inquiries - Thus, it is directed that currency of suspension should not extend beyond three months, if within this period charge-sheet is not served on the delinquent - If the
Authorities it was built on
- 1994 Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab
- 1991 Abdul Rehman Antulay Etc. Etc. v. R.S. Nayak and Anr. Etc. Etc.
- 1986 Raghubir Singh & Others Etc. v. State of Bihar
- 1998 State of Andhra Pradesh v. N. Radhakishan
- 2012 Ravi Yashwant v. District Collector, Raigad and Ors.
- 1995 State of Punjab and Ors. v. Chaman Lal Goyal
Where later benches applied it
- 2026 Surekha Domaji Bele v. Executive Engineer, Testing Division, Msedcl
- 2022 Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation v. Sanjay Gajanan Gharat and Another
Of those, 2 referred to
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