Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 339 · Decided 16 August 2002
Sher Bahadur v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 339 · [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 568
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5055/2002
- Decided
- 16 August 2002
- Bench
- S.S.M. QUADRI, S.N. VARIAVA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service law: Railway Services (Conduct) Rules, I 966; Section 3. 1 (i)(ii) and (iii)/ C Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1986; Rule 6[vii) to {ix): Appointment as casual labourer-Conferred temporary status on the post of Khalasi in regular pay scale-Issuance of charge sheet by the enquiry-Challenging on ground of insufficiency of evidence-Rejected by D Tribunal and High Court-Correctness of-Held, sufficiency of evidence postulates existence of such evidence which establishes nexus of charged officer with the alleged misconduct-Since no such nexus could be found in the
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