Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1016 · Decided 23 September 2022
The Inspector of Panchayats and District Collector, Salem v. S. Arichandran & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1016 · [2022] 4 S.C.R. 864
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6776/2022
- Decided
- 23 September 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law - Departmental Inquiry - Dismissal - Non- compliance of Principles of Natural justice - Impermissibility of - Held: Respondent-delinquent was facing the departmental inquiry w.r.t serious charge of misappropriation - As was set aside on the ground that the same was in breach of principles of natural justice, the High Court ought to have remitted the case to the Disciplinary Authority to conduct the inquiry from the point that it stood vitiated and to conclude it after furnishing a copy of the Inquiry Report
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