Supreme Court of India

Deputy General Manager (appellate Authority) and Others v. Ajai Kumar Srivastava

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Reported as [2021] 1 S.C.R. 51
Bench L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi JJ.
Decided 5 January 2021

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court has committed an apparent error in setting as ide the order of dismissal of the respondent dated 24th July, 1999 confirmed in departmental appeal by order dated 15th November, 1999.

Judgment, page 27

From the headnote

Service Law: Bank service – Misappropriation of fun ds – Dismissal from service – Enquiry officer noticed i n his enquiry report that the respondent delinquent neither produ ced any document nor witness in self-defence and even never r equested to allow him to defend him by a representative of his choice – nquiry officer examined all the charges and found charges 2 to 7 proved while charge no.1 was held to be not proved – Disciplinary authori ty revisited the record of enquiry and while upholding th e finding of fact in reference to charge no.2-7 disagreed on findin g on charge no.1 and held

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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