Supreme Court of India

State of Uttar Pradesh through Principal Secretary, Department of Panchayati Raj, Lucknow v. Ram Prakash Singh

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Reported as [2025] 5 S.C.R. 275
Bench Dipankar Datta and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.
Decided 22 April 2025

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We hold that the Tribunal and the High Court were correct and justified in not granting one more opportunity to the appellant to resume proceedings from the stage invalidity in the proceedings was detected.

Judgment, page 56

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Issue for Consideration Whether, in pursuance of a purported enquiry where there was none to present the case of the department, no witness was examined in support of the charges and no document was formally proved, any order of punishment could validly be made; whether the disciplinary authority was justified in placing reliance on a report of enquiry prepared by the Enquiry Officer who had looked into documents which were not provided to the respondent and had arrived at findings of guilt only on the basis of the charge- sheet, the reply thereto of the respondent and such documents; whether

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