Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 555 · Decided 22 April 2025
State of Uttar Pradesh Through Principal Secretary, Department of Panchayati Raj, Lucknow v. Ram Prakash Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 555 · [2025] 5 S.C.R. 275
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 14724/2024
- Decided
- 22 April 2025
- Bench
- DIPANKAR DATTA, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act; Constitution Article 311
Headnote
Whether, in pursuance of a purported enquiry where there was none to present the case of the department, no witness was examined in support of the charges and no document was formally proved, any order of be made; whether the disciplinary authority was justified in placing reliance on a report of enquiry prepared by the Enquiry Officer who had looked into documents which were not provided to the respondent and had arrived at findings of guilt only on the basis of the charge- sheet, the reply
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