Supreme Court · 1992 INSC 340 · Decided 11 December 1992
P. V. Srinivasa Sastry and ORS. v. Comptroller and Auditor General and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1992 INSC 340 · [1992] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 503
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 464/1982
- Decided
- 11 December 1992
- Bench
- N.M. KASLIWAL, N.P. SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 311(1), 311(2), 311
Headnote
Constitution of India-Article 311(1)-"Shall be dismissed by an authority subordinate to that by which he was appointed''-Held, does riot include guarantee that disciplinary proceeding should be initiated only by appointing authority. Constitution of India-Article 311(2)-"Reduction in rank which he did not hold at any stage. A B c P.V. Srinivasa Sastry and M. Mahadeva Setty were appointed as D Upper Division Clerks by direct recruitment in 1963. P. Gangireddy was initially appointed as Lower Division Clerk. They were working as Auditors in 1975. Departmental proceedings
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