Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 63 · Decided 1 February 2012
Nand Kumar Verma v. State of Jharkhand & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 63 · [2012] 1 S.C.R. 504
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1458/2012
- Decided
- 1 February 2012
- Bench
- H.L. DATTU, ANIL R. DAVE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
SERVICE LAW· C Successive departmental proceedings on the same set of charges - Held: On general principles, there can be only one enquiry in respect of a charge for a particular misconduct and that is also what the rules usually provide - When a completed enquiry proceedings is set aside or on the ground of procedural D infirmity, fresh proceedings on the same charges is permissible - Jn the instant case, the High Court, having accepted the explanations, could not have proceeded to pass the order of initiating subsequent departmental proceedings - There is no justification for
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