Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 333 · Decided 26 May 2010
U.P. State Road Transport Corporation v. Suresh Chand Sharma
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 333 · [2010] 7 S.C.R. 239
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3086/2007
- Decided
- 26 May 2010
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law: A B Misconduct - Misappropriation of public money - c Appropriate punishment - Conductor in State Road Transport Corporation recovering travelling fare from passengers but not issuing tickets to them - Misappropriating the recovered fare i.e. public money - Conductor terminated from challenged as being D dispr_oportionate on the ground that the amount misappropriated ~as petty - Held: The challenge is not tenable - Amount misappropriated may be small or large; it is the mens rea to misappropriate the public money that is relevant - In cases of corruption!
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