Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1011 · Decided 4 August 2009
Southern Railway Officers ASSN. and ANR. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1011 · [2009] 12 S.C.R. 429
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4835/2007
- Decided
- 4 August 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 311(2)
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Article 311(2), Clause (b) of second proviso - Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968 - Rules 14(ii) - Dispensation from holding of C disciplinary inquiry - Railway Officer superannuated and was to leave for his native place - Delinquent terrorism, assaulted him and threatened him and others present at station - Matter reported to police and disciplinary authority- Order of dismissal recording that it was· D not practicable to hold an inquiry - Formality of holding disciplinary proceeding was dispensed with - Subsequent
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