Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 6 · Decided 3 January 2014
Ishwar Chandra Jayaswal v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 6 · [2014] 1 S.C.R. 59
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 48/2014
- Decided
- 3 January 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
SERVICE LAW: A B Departmental inquiry - Charges proved - Punishment c - Doctrine of proportionality - Railway employee - Removal from service on charges of demanding and accepting meager amounts - Held: Removal of employee from service for the charges levelled against him shocks the judicial of retiral benefits in addition to loss 0 of service is entirely incommensurate with the charge of appellant having taken very small sums of money for issuance of Fit Certificate to other Railway employees - Appellant shall be deemed to have been compulsorily retired under Part-I/I Penalty
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