Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 279 · Decided 19 February 1996
Municipal Committee, Bahadurgarh v. Krishnan Behari and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 279 · [1996] 2 S.C.R. 827
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4120/1996
- Decided
- 19 February 1996
- Bench
- B.P. JEEVAN REDDY, K.S. PARIPOORNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 409, 468; Constitution Article 311(2)
Headnote
B Se1vice Law : Employee of Municipal Corporation dismissed from service f of misap­ propriation of cash and falsifying account~The employee was also prosecuted and convicted-In departmental appeal Director of Local Bodies reduced the punishment to stoppage off our increment~Also directed that as extra-ordinary leave-Appeals to Commissioner and High Court dis­ missed-On appeal held, in cases involving com.tption there cannot be any other punishment than dismissal--Any sympathy shown in such a case is D totally unwmmnted and opposed to public interest. CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION:
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