Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Ors. v. Sitaram Mishra and Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 9 S.C.R. 585
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee JJ.
Decided 11 July 2019

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we allow the appeal and set aside the impugned judgment and order of the Division Bench of the High Court dated 14 December 2007.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Service Law: Dismissal from service – Under s. 11(1) of CRPF Act r/w CRPF Rules – After holding disciplinary enquiry – Holding the deli nquent guilty of misconduct for carelessly handling the weap on assigned to him as a member of the force, resulting in death of one p erson – In criminal case u/s. 304 IPC the delinquent was acquitt ed – Writ petition challenging dismissal from service – Dismi ssed by High Court – Division Bench of High Court set aside the order o f Single Judge holding that charge of misconduct was not est ablished – Appeal to Supreme Court – Held: There was no irregularit y

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 mentioned

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