Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 85 · Decided 19 March 1971
K. H. Phadnis v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 85 · [1971] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 118
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 381/1967
- Decided
- 19 March 1971
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, J.M. SHELAT, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, A.N. GROVER, A.N. RAY (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 311, 226
Headnote
Civil Servant-Holding temporary post-Reversion to substantive post -When amounts to punishment and violation of Art. 311, Constitution. Tho appellant was repatriated from the temporay post of Controller of Food Grains Department to his parent department of Excise and Pro· hibition. His was chosen to go on depu· talion twice in 1942 and in 1957 and that he was chosen for his experi· ence. The. record also showed that he was promoted from time to time. While holding the post of Controller, the Director of Civil Supplies asked him about certain charges of receiving
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