Supreme Court of India

The Inspector of Panchayats and District Collector, Salem v. S. Arichandran & Ors

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Reported as [2022] 4 S.C.R. 864
Bench M. R. Shah and Krishna Murari JJ.
Decided 23 September 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, present appeal succeeds in part.

Judgment, page 5

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Service Law – Departmental Inquiry – Dismissal – Non - compliance of Principles of Natural justice – Impermissibility of – Held: Respondent-delinquent was facing the departmenta l inquiry w.r.t serious charge of misappropriation – As the order of di smissal was set aside on the ground that the same was in breach of pr inciples of natural justice, the High Court ought to have remitted the c ase to the Disciplinary Authority to conduct the inquiry f rom the point that it stood vitiated and to conclude it after furnis hing a copy of the Inquiry Report to the delinquent and giving him an

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