Supreme Court of India
Punjab and Sind Bank v. Raj Kumar
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What the Court ordered
For the aforesaid reasons, we set aside the order of the Tribunal which has interfered with the quantum of punishment and which has also substituted its own 360 [2026] 4 S.C.R. Supreme Court Reports view of the punishment.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Issue for Consideration Whether the imposition of lighter punishment on the co-delinquents while imposing the punishment of ‘dismissal from service’ upon the respondent is in outright defiance of logic. Headnotes† Punjab and Sind Officer Employees’ (Conduct) Regulations, 1981 – Dismissal from service – Allegation that respondent connived with two others (one officer and a gunman) to misappropriate money of the customers for their personal gain, stealing bank records, etc. – The disciplinary authority imposed the penalty of compulsory retirement on the co- delinquent gunman while the
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- 2000 Om Kumar and Ors. v. Union of India in Delhi Development Authority v. Skipper Construction and Anr.
- 1995 B.C. Chaturvedi v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1987 Ranjit Thakur v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1997 Union of India and Another v. G. Ganayutham (dead) by Lrs.
- 2003 Chairman and Managing Director, United Commercial Bank and Ors. v. P.C. Kakkar
- 2001 Union of India and Ors. v. R.K. Sharma
- 2013 Sr. Tewari v. Union of India and Anr.
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