Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 145 · Decided 15 March 2000
U.P. State Road Transport Corporation v. Subhash Chandra Sharma and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 145 · [2000] 2 S.C.R. 451
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2128/2000
- Decided
- 15 March 2000
- Bench
- S. SAGHIR AHMAD, D.P. WADHWA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226; Industrial Disputes Act
Headnote
Labour Law.: Industrial Disputf!S Act, 1947: s.11-A-Punishment of removal I dis­ missal-Power of Lab~ur Court to give appropriate relief ~f punishment is found not justified-Held, Labour Court has discretion to award a lesser punishment-This power is also available with High Court exercising disproportionate-However,, in the instant case, the charge against the delin- . quent was of a seiious nature and the Labour Court having found that there was no infi.rmity in conducting departmental inquiry, should not have interfered with the quantum of punishment-High Court also failed
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