Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 667 · Decided 3 October 2013
U.P. Power Corporation LTD. and Another v. Virendra Lal (Dead) Through L.RS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 667 · [2013] 11 S.C.R. 314
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8949/2013
- Decided
- 3 October 2013
- Bench
- ANIL R. DAVE, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
I Service Law - Misconduct - Punishment - Imposition of, by higher/ appellate authority - Justification - Held: A higher C authority may pass order imposing punishment, if the right of appeal is not taken away - If the appellate authority passes order as the primary authority and there appeal or revision or review, it cannot be said that the said order suffers from any illegality - In the case at hand, the D Chairman was the competent authority to pass order of punishment against the delinquent employee, while appeal/ representation from the order of the Chairman lay before
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