Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 264 · Decided 27 February 2008
Uttaranchal Transport Corporation v. Sanjay Kumar Nautiyal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 264 · [2008] 3 S.C.R. 549
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 696/2006
- Decided
- 27 February 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, D.K. JAIN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Industrial Disputes Act
Headnote
Labour Laws: Dismissal - Gross misconduct - Breach of trust - Dismissal of Respondent Bus Conductor for gross misconduct c in duty and misappropriation of public funds/ticket money - Justification - Held: Justified - Respondent, who was acting in a fiduciary capacity, was guilty of Courts > ""'\ below erred in holding the punishment imposed upon him to be disproportionate - UP Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - D s.2(1-A). Respondent was employed as a Bus Conductor in Appellant-Transport Corporation. On a surprise checking by the personnel of Appellant-Transport
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