Supreme Court of India
The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Others v. Ch. Gandhi
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What the Court ordered
In view of the aforesaid analysis, the order passed by the High Court that a double punishment has been imposed does not withstand scrutiny.
Judgment, page 36
From the headnote
SERVICE LAW: Disciplinary proceedings - Penalty - Disciplinary proceedings initiated under unamended rule - Penalty imposed in terms of amended rule - Held: In the case at hand, the disciplinary proceeding was initiated by serving a charge-sheet for the purpose of imposition of a major penalty - Employee had no vested right to be imposed a particular punishment as envisaged under the unamended rules - Unamended r.9(vii) was only dealing with reduction or reversion, but stipulation of postponement of future increments has come by way of amendment - The same being a lesser punishment than the…
Authorities it was built on
- 1982 D.S. Nakara & Others v. Union of India
- 1994 Hitendra Vishnu Thakur and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 1971 Deokinandan Prasad v. State of Bihar & Ors.
- 1991 Union of India Etc. Etc. v. K.V. Jankiraman Etc. Etc.
- 1983 A.a Calton v. The Director of Education & Another
- 1997 Chairman, Railway Board and Ors. v. C.R. Rangadhamaiah and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 2007 Marripati Nagaraja and Ors. v. The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.
- 2008 Ritesh Agarwal and Anr. v. Securities and Exchange Board of India Act and Ors.
- 1984 Ex. Capt. K.C. Arora and Another v. State of Haryana and Others
- 1985 Maya Rani Punj v. Commissioner of Income Tax, Delhi,
- 2005 Government of India and Ors. v. Indian Tobacco Association
- 1975 Tiwari Kanahaiyalal Etc. v. The Commissioner of Income Tax, Delhi
- 2007 Coal India Ltd. and Ors. v. Saroj Kumar Mishra
- 1989 Pyare Lal Sharma v. Managing Director, Jammu & Kashmir Industries Ltd. & Ors. & Vice Versa.
- 1975 Raj Kumar v. Union of India & Ors.
- 1992 Delhi Development Authority v. H.C. Khurana
- 2007 You One Maharia -jv through You One Engineering and Construction Company Ltd. and Anr. v. National Highways Authority of India
- 2007 Tejshree Ghag Etc. Etc. v. Prakash Parashuram Patil and Ors. Etc. Etc.
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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