Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 898 · Decided 25 July 2025
Union of India & ORS. v. R. Shankarappa
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 898 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1622
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9852/2025
- Decided
- 25 July 2025
- Bench
- SANJAY KUMAR, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Prevention of Corruption Act Section 13(1)(d)
Headnote
Issue arose as regards the correctness of the order passed by the High Court that in cases where a charge-sheet has been issued u/r.14 of the CCS CCA Rules, by authority empowered to inflict minor penalties, then the charge memo has to be approved by the authority (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1965 - rr.14, 13(2) - Procedure for imposing major penalties - Case relating to the trap case and the case of possessing assets disproportionate to known source of income against the government employee - Disciplinary
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