K. Prabhakar Hegde v. Bank of Baroda

Headnote

(i) Whether denial of the report of preliminary inquiry prepared by the officer entrusted by Vijaya Bank (which merged with the respondent in the year 2019) to conduct such inquiry, who happened to be the sole management witness, was sufficient to vitiate the regular (ii) whether the failure/omission of the Inquiry Officer to generally question the appellant on the circumstances appearing against him in the evidence, as per Regulation 6(17) of the Vijaya Bank Officer Employees' (Discipline and Appeal) Regulations, 1981, vitiated the inquiry;