Supreme Court of India

State Bank of India & Ors. v. Atindra Nath Bhattacharyya & Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 9 S.C.R. 769
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 25 July 2019

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Doctrines/Principles: Principle of natural justice – Reasonable opportunity of hearing – On facts, writ petition by employee challenging his removal from service – High Court set aside the order of punishment as well as penalty or der, directing employer to serve notice before imposing penalty – Thereafter, employer-bank served repeated notice for personal h earing to employee, however, employee did not appear – In app eal by the employee, the Division Bench however, again directed the em ployer- Bank to grant another opportunity of hearing to the employee – On appeal held: Once opportunity

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