Supreme Court of India

Indian Overseas Bank & Ors. v. Om Prakash Lal Srivastava

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Reported as [2022] 1 S.C.R. 246
Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M. M. Sundresh JJ.
Decided 19 January 2022

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We are of the view that the High Court has fallen 1 (2003) 3 SCC 583 255 into an error in coming to the conclusion in the impugned judgment and directing, once again, the matter to be remitted to the Industrial Tribunal to now seek opinion of a hand writing expert.

Judgment, page 9

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Service Law: Bank service – Disciplinary proceeding s – Dismissal from service – Respondent employed in appe llant-bank/ management as a clerk-cum-cashier – complaint was made b y his sister-in-law that respondent had opened and operated saving bank account in joint name with her by forging her signa tures and encashed demand draft which she had received on dea th of her husband – Inquiry officer opined that bare comparis on of the signatures on the account opening form and withdraw al form purportedly signed by sister-in-law of respondent showed that they were different, by looking from the

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